Cop’s yob son who killed two in crash dodges jail AGAIN… but is warned he could finally face jail for another drugs bust
THE yob son of ex-cops who killed two in a drug-drive smash before walking free for drug dealing has dodged jail for a THIRD time.
Max Coopey, 21, appeared at Reading Magistrates Court on Friday for his “deliberate” failure to take a blood test after driving.
He had been found with cannabis and “burner phones” which the court heard he was dealing to fund his own drug habit.
But the judge failed to jail Coopey after learning that he now mentors young people to stop them committing crimes.
Coopey killed salesmen John Shackley, 61, and Jason Imi, 48, as they walked back to their hotel after a work night out on August 2, 2018.
The pair were thrown over the roof of Coopey’s dad’s Audi A5 sports car and killed instantly on the A329 London Road in Sunninghill, Berks.
Coopey, then 17, was taking two pals home after smoking weed and was over the limit for cannabis at the time.
He then fraudulently obtained an insurance policy to try and cover him for the killings.
In February 2020 his dad, ex-Met Sergeant Russell Coopey, made an £800,000 settlement with the family of Mr Imi.
Smirking Coopey was seen putting his middle finger up at reporters following the decision at London County Court.
After a Thames Valley Police investigation decided Coopey was not criminally liable for the deaths, he was charged with drug driving only.
Magistrates in Reading spared him jail but sentenced him to a YRO and disqualified him from driving for two years.
On Friday Coopey admitted to failing to provide a specimen of blood for a laboratory test.
The request came amid an investigation into whether he had committed an offence when driving on July 22 last year.
He also admitted two charges of possessing cannabis with intent to supply on September 14 2019 and February 21 2020.
In court on Friday, district judge Samuel Goozee told Coopey he led a “an anti-social life associating with anti-social people” as a youth.
He added: “You have developed an entrenched drug dependency and had turned to dealing not only to fund your own dependency but to earn money.”
Coopey was spared jail but was disqualified from driving for 36 months and handed an 18-month community order which would require him to complete 25 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days.
It will also see him required to go for mental health treatment and to wear an ankle tag for six months.
He was ordered to pay costs of £100 and a surcharge of £95.
Coopey is also facing sentence at Isleworth Crown Court for, on February 9 last year, possessing cannabis with intent to supply, being concerned in making an offer to supply ketamine and supplying Xanax.
Coopey’s father Russel, a Sergeant formerly of the South West Basic Control Unit and his mother Catherine, a schools officer based in Ealing, have left the Metropolitan Police Force.
It was understood they had retired after Coopey appeared in court charged with stashing £1000 of cannabis at their £1million family home.
A spokesman for the Met said: “Both officers are no longer serving in the MPS having retired earlier in 2022.”