{"id":930823,"date":"2026-05-01T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:04:16","slug":"a19-horror-crash-sentence-live-updates-as-killer-bmw-driver-jailed-for-over-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930823\/","title":{"rendered":"A19 horror crash sentence LIVE: Updates as killer BMW driver jailed for over 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A drugged and dangerous driver who killed his girlfriend in a head-on smash while driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway had reached 136mph as he tried to outrun police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kane Farragher had vast quantities of various drugs in his system as he drove a BMW M135 with 24-year-old Taylor Jenkins in the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">As he drove the wrong way down the A19, into oncoming traffic, he smashed into taxi coming the other way, killing Taylor and seriously injuring his friend in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Farragher was found to be way over the limit for a cocktail of drugs including cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, and cannabis and he was already banned from driving for previous offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Read the full story <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/news\/north-east-news\/drugged-dangerous-driver-136mph-before-33873127\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drugged and dangerous driver who killed his girlfriend in a head-on smash while driving the wrong way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[74232,30,188,210976,12,2958,16,15],"class_list":["post-930823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-a19","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-newcastle-crown-court","tag-news","tag-sunderland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116499701198744318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}