A NETFLIX star and British rapper has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a fatal crash.
Justin Clarke-Samuel, who stars in Netflix series Supacell, allegedly failed to stop after hitting a 20-year-old man in Ilford, east London, on October 18.
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British rapper Ghetts has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a fatal crashCredit: GettyBritish rapper Justin Jude Clarke-Samuels, aka Ghetts performs live on stageCredit: Getty
The 41-year-old, who goes by the name Ghetts, appeared at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Monday, the same day the man died in hospital.
The indictment could change from causing serious injury to causing death by dangerous driving at the next hearing.
The rapper, from Woodford Green, was remanded into custody and is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Monday, October 27.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash to come forward.
The rapper has featured alongside Skepta, Stormzy and Ed Sheeran, racking up millions of hits on Spotify.
In 2024 he performed at Glastonbury. In 2008, Ghetts was nominated for a BET Award for Best International Act: UK along with Chipmunk, Giggs, and Skepta.
His music has since been played on national radio stations including BBC Radio 1, Kiss 100 and BBC Radio1Extra.
Clarke-Samuel has toured internationally with Top Bar star and fellow rapper Kano, and was a member of East London British grime group Nasty Crew.
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Anthony Tregonning’s modified Evo was caught on dashcams and traffic cameras speeding and weaving onto the hard shoulder and a coned off lane before the crash
A hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously hurt a road worker after a 130mph police chase tried to blame his ex-partner in a bungled cover-up before being caught out by a Ring doorbell.
Anthony Tregonning reported his modified supercar stolen hours after he hit Ieuan Parry in a coned-off lane of a dual carriageway in a police investigation filmed by BBC show The Crash Detectives.
Custody footage shows Tregonning telling officers he used the closed lane because he wanted to evade police as his Mitsubishi Evo was uninsured.
Mr Parry had a leg amputated because of his injuries and Tregonning was sentenced to three years and four months after admitting serious injury by dangerous driving.
Tregonning had appeared on YouTube showing off the car he claimed was worth £50,000, telling presenters of a car enthusiasts channel how he had modified his white Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 to make it quicker and more powerful.
Two days after the video was published online, he was pursued by police in south Wales after failing to stop for officers who had become suspicious when their in-car ANPR camera could not read his illegal number plate.
Traffic cops reached speeds of 131mph trying to keep up with Tregonning as he weaved in and out of midday traffic.
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Anthony Tregonning initially reported his Mitsubishi Evo stolen after the crash with a road worker before he changed his story due to the police evidence against him
Dashcam footage from a driver showed him using the hard shoulder and a lane closed to traffic by cones so workers could maintain the roadside.
The chase was aborted when police found a road worker, who was wearing orange hi-vis clothing as he had been blowing grass off the closed carriageway, sitting on the ground with an open fracture to his leg as well as head injuries.
The speeding driver fled before Mr Parry was taken to hospital with serious injuries after the crash on the Heads of the Valleys road between Tredegar and Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent.
About an hour later Tregonning called 999 claiming his vehicle had been stolen after a friend rang him to say his Mitsubishi with personalised number plate F5 EVO had been “seen flying down the A465”.
When officers attended his house in nearby Merthyr Tydfil, he tried to orchestrate a cover up telling police that he and his partner had split up but still share the same house.
He said that morning he had had an argument with his estranged partner about selling his car.
Police bodycam footage showed Tregonning telling an officer that his car was in his drive when he had left home but had gone by the time he returned.
After speaking with his neighbours, another officer saw Ring doorbell footage of Tregonning leaving his home in the Evo at about 11:50 BST before the crash 10 miles away at about 12:10 on 22 November 2021.
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Dashcam footage from a passing motorist of road worker Ieuan Parry injured on the ground after being hit by Anthony Tregonning in a coned-off lane
“You’re captured on the Ring doorbell leaving and you return without the car,” the officer told him while he pleaded innocence in his living room.
Tregonning was arrested and eventually admitted to investigators that he was behind the wheel after spending the night in a police cell.
He insisted he was a careful driver and was “driving like I normally do”.
“I thought I seen a police car… then it dawned on me the car ain’t insured,” he said in his interview with Gwent Police.
“I wasn’t escaping from the police, I just thought get the car home and deal with it afterwards.”
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Tregonning told officers he used the hard shoulder because “at the that time I believed that was an emergency for me”.
Asked what he classed as the emergency, footage shows Tregonning telling his police interview: “Having no insurance on my car, my £50,000 car getting taken off me.”
He also told officers he thought he had hit a traffic cone and “panicked” so drove off “as quickly as I can”.
Tregonning initially denied hitting the 24-year-old road worker as he told interviewing officers: “If I knew I’d hit someone, I’d have stopped immediately.”
The Crash Detectives cameras show forensic investigators finding orange fibres from Mr Parry’s orange high-vis trousers on the wheel of his Evo.
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Anthony Tregonning admitted it made him “feel sick” when he heard the road worker he struck had suffered serious life-changing leg injuries
Crash Experts also found no evidence of Tregonning hitting a cone and showed damage to his car was consistent with hitting a person.
The driver had also told police his Evo sports car had 330 brake horsepower but Tregonning told the Accelerate YouTube channel that he had souped it up to almost 900 brake horsepower.
“All of the modifications were very much about speed and acceleration,” said forensic investigator PC Matt Rue.
They also examined the vehicle’s condition and felt they found damage in areas like the suspension that had been “caused by the way in which it had been driven”.
Mr Parry told police he saw a white Mitsubishi driving towards him but couldn’t move in time and was spun upon impact.
He suffered a broken leg and a fractured skull. He spent 17 days at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where he underwent surgery on five occasions before his left leg was amputated from the knee.
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Ieaun Parry was hit while doing roadside maintenance within a closed lane on the mains Heads of the Valleys road which links east and west Wales
“Every day I think about how my dream has been taken away and I know I must live a different way of life,” Mr Parry, who described himself as a workaholic who wanted to start his own business, told Tregonning’s trial.
“I was an independent person and enjoyed doing basic day-to-day things around the house like cooking, DIY, and gardening but I have to sit back and watch people do it for me.”
Tregonning admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. He was also disqualified from driving for five years and eight months.
Sentencing Tregonning, Judge Timothy Petts said every aspect of Mr Parry’s life had been “ruined by your stupidity”.
“No sentence I can pass can make good what you did to Mr Parry,” he added.
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Dashcam footage caught Anthony Tregonning’s white Mitsubishi Evo going into the coned off lane on the Heads of the Valleys road to undertake a lorry to evade police
When hearing about Mr Parry’s injuries, Tregonning said it “has made me feel sick”.
Mr Parry said he suffers with flashbacks and depression because of the crash and said his partner has turned into a full-time carer which he has said “makes me feel like a burden”.
Mr Parry later told Sky News he felt Tregonning should have had a longer prison sentence.
“I think it’s appalling,” he said. “[The sentence was] not harsh enough for the seriousness of his crime.”
Tributes have poured in to a “beautiful” 21-year-old woman killed in a horror, late-night crash outside a shopping centre.
Emergency services raced to Brassington Avenue in Sutton Coldfield on Friday night, after two women were struck by a car.
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A huge wall of tributes to a woman who died in a car crash has appeared in the West MidlandsCredit: SWNS
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Natasha was sadly killed on Friday nightCredit: SWNS
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Flowers have appeared at the wall which is based at the site of the crashCredit: SWNS
One victim was sadly pronounced dead at the scene shortly after midnight – despite the efforts of medics.
Although her full name hasn’t been released, the victim has been named locally as Natasha.
The other woman survived, though sustained a leg injury.
Meanwhile, two men were arrested by police on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
One suspect was released with no further action while the other was bailed with conditions while detectives continue to investigate.
A heartbreaking 25ft (7m) long shrine – featuring hundreds of tributes and flowers – has since appeared at the scene of the tragic smash.
One poignant note from her parents reads: “I hope you know how much you were loved. You will never know how much you are missed.
“Keep dancing my beautiful little girl. Love you forever, Mom, Dad, Georgia and Milo Xxxxxxxx woof lick.”
Another from her sister says: “Sis, Totally hilarious, kind and witty. You are one in a million. Party hard up there girly.
“We will love you and miss you forever. Until we meet again, G.”
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Another bouquet along the makeshift shrine, which also features dozens of photos of Natasha, added: “Beautiful inside and out. You will never be forgotten.”
One particularly poignant note from one of Natasha’s friends read: “My beautiful Tash, you were the best friend I could have ever wished for.
“You were so funny, caring and crazy. I’m so incredibly grateful for our time together. You changed my life.
“I will never ever forget you. I love you more than you’ll ever know.”
One tribute from her uncle and auntie, read: “To our darling Tish, we are broken. You will be with us forever.”
Officers from West Midlands Police are still appealing for any witnesses who may have seen the collision outside Gracechurch shopping centre to come forward.
Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes, from the force’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: “I would like to thank all those who have contacted us so far and all those that went to the aid of the two young women on the night.
“Our investigation is continuing, and we would particularly like to hear from anyone who saw the car involved, a silver Toyota Corolla immediately before the collision happened.
“If you have any CCTV from the surrounding area, you should get in touch with us to share what you know.
“This was a heartbreaking incident which has robbed a young woman of her life.
“Our officers are working with her family, who remain in our thoughts at this desperately sad time, and I would ask that their privacy is respected”.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting log number 5911 of August 22 or email detectives directly at [email protected].
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Many of the pictures show Natasha with friends and familyCredit: SWNS
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Hundreds of heartfelt tributes have been left at the wallCredit: SWNS
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Many people left notes addressed to NatashaCredit: SWNS
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Several of the notes included heartwarming picturesCredit: SWNS
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Police are appealing for more information about the crashCredit: SWNS
Fauja Singh, a torchbearer at the 2012 London Olympics and the world’s oldest marathon runner, died Monday in a hit-and-run, according to police in the northwestern Indian state of Punjab. He was 114.
Born in India in 1911, Singh lived much of his life in London. On Oct. 13, 2011, in Toronto, he set a flurry of world age-group records at a meet established especially for him, the Ontario Masters Association Fauja Singh Invitational.
Singh, nicknamed the “Turbaned Tornado,” ran the 100 meters in 23.14, 200 meters in 52.23, 400 meters in 2:13.48, 800 meters in 5:32.18, 1500 meters in 11:27.81, one mile in 11:53.45, 3000 meters in 24:52.47 and 5000 meters in 49:57.39. He was 100 years old.
“He rested between the events by sitting down and having a few sips of tea,” Ontario Masters official Doug Smith told the New York Times in 2017. “He was actually running — both feet off the ground.
“It was the most astonishing achievement.”
Singh became the first centenarian to finish a marathon three days later, completing the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8 hours, 11 minutes and 6 seconds. He didn’t begin the race until 14 minutes after the starting gun because of the congestion of runners, so his official time was 8:25:17.
Guinness World Records wouldn’t recognize the feat because Singh didn’t have a birth certificate. India didn’t keep official birth records when he was born in 1911. The birth date on his passport was April 1, 1911.
A Punjabi Sikh, Singh moved to London in 1992 to live with an adult son after his wife, Gian Kaur, a son and a daughter died. He took up running two years later to alleviate his grief after the death of his fifth son, Kuldip.
“The villagers would tell one of his sons to take him to the UK because he would keep visiting the cremation ground and sit there for hours,” his biographer, Khushwant Singh, told NDTV.
Running soon became his passion. Easily identified by his long white beard and orange Sikh turban, Singh was honored with a letter from Queen Elizabeth II of England when he turned 100 and was the subject of a biography launched in the House of Lords.
In all, Singh completed nine marathons and ran his last competitive race in February 2013 when he was 101, finishing a 10K run in Hong Kong in 1 hour 32 minutes and 28 seconds.
Singh returned to India during the pandemic and was hit by a car Monday while on his daily walk in his home village of Beas Pind. He died in a hospital, his former coach Harmander Singh told the New York Times.
“We would always tell him that someone his age running in India would always run the risk of being hit given how reckless the driving here is,” Khushwant Singh said. “This is what ultimately happened, unfortunately,”
The former NBA great and current player for the Big 3’s L.A. Riot on Wednesday wrote on Instagram that his dog, Sunday, died in an apparent hit-and-run accident on June 18 in Suwanee, Ga. Howard said that he was visiting New York when he received the tragic news that his beloved Belgian Malinois “got loose and was hit by a car that kept going.”
“I’m devastated because you were the dog that never left my side, the dog that stuck to my hip at all times, and the one time you wander off without me being there someone takes you away from me,” Howard wrote. “Who could be so heartless to do this to such an innocent girl with no remorse.
“I’ve been trying to hold this in. … I really have but it’s killing me inside to get answers! I need answers and I won’t stop searching until I find out what happen to my beautiful Sunday.”
Howard implored his 3.7 million followers to share any information they might have about the incident. The majority of his post, however, was a tribute in words, photos and videos to a dear pooch who sounds as though she was one man’s best friend.
“From the moment I got you, Sunday, you were more than just my dog. … You were my peace. My protector. A reminder of everything beautiful and calm just like those early Sunday mornings,” wrote Howard, a three-time defensive player of the year who won an NBA title with the Lakers in 2020 and is set to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this fall.
“You hugged like no other. Barked at nothing like it meant everything. And every time I called your name, you came running full speed like your only mission was to love me. You waited at the door for me every single day, just to wrap your paws around me. And I’m gonna miss those hugs more than I can put into words.
“You were joy. You were warmth. You were my girl. And your life was cut short too soon. You helped me Smile through all the Storms I’ve been through but what do I do now that my Sunday Sunshine is gone.”
