Children’s family ‘devastated’ after M4 drink-driver jailed for just nine years

Martin Newman was sipping wine and had taken drugs when he veered into car, killing three- and four-year-old and injuring mother

The family of two young siblings killed in a motorway crash caused by a drink-driver who had been sipping red wine at the wheel and had cocaine in his system have said they are devastated and angry after he was jailed for just nine years.

Judge Williams acknowledged many people would feel the term he passed on Martin Newman was inadequate, but said sentencing laws set by parliament meant he could not jail him for longer.