Hit and run driver tried to stop nurse helping boy, 13, as he lay dying in road
A drunk hit-and-run driver ran over a 13-year-old boy then returned to the scene and tried to stop people helping him.
Harley Whiteman, 19, asked a student nurse desperately performing CPR on stricken Kaylan Hippsley: ‘Why the f*** don’t you all just leave him and stop doing that?’
The schoolboy suffered catastrophic injuries after being hit at up to 60mph by the Ford Fiesta and thrown 40ft into the road in the village of Hirwaun, South Wales, on February 29.
He never regained consciousness despite the efforts of bystanders and paramedics and sadly died in hospital days later.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard Kaylan had been standing outside a Co-Op store with some friends when the tragedy unfolded.
The boys spotted the Fiesta travelling at speed, with some putting it at between 40mph and 60mph.
A Citroen car was heading towards Whiteman as the road narrowed due to parked cars, but he tried to squeeze through the gap instead of giving way, the court heard.
He lost control of the wheel and ended up mounting the pavement, ploughing into Kaylan.
Following the collision, Whiteman didn’t stop and continued driving erratically at speed, narrowly avoiding a further collision with another car.
Whiteman looped around and drove past the scene before speeding off when a witness tried to take his photo after recognising him as the driver who had caused the carnage.
After going home to drop off his two passengers he went back to the scene for a second time where he started arguing with the pedestrians tending to Kaylan.
The court heard he tried to stop a student nurse who was performing CPR, saying: ‘Do you think I give a f*** about this kid on the floor?
‘Why the f*** don’t you all just leave him and stop doing that.’
Whiteman argued with a man who asked him about his car and offered to fight another, all as the youngster lay fatally injured.
He then had to be restrained when police arrived and callously remarked: ‘It was a f***ing good show.’
The driver refused to take a breath test, but the court heard he later told a probation worker he had taken a line of cocaine and drunk four pints of lager before the crash.
Whiteman, of Hirwaun, later pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen.
Jailing him for six years and nine months, Judge Jeremy Jenkins said: ‘[Kaylan] was killed by your flagrant and callous disregard for the rules of the road and others around you.
‘His injuries were described as unsurvivable. At the scene your behaviour was abhorrent and heartless, and when arrested you were aggressive, unruly, and unrepentant.’
Kaylan died in hospital on March 3.
The Aberdare Community School was a keen football and rugby player whose family remembered him as a ‘cheeky chappie’ who was ‘polite, creative and lovely’.
In a victim personal statement read to the court, Kaylan’s sister Olivia said: ‘There are no words I can put to properly describe the sheer horror caused to me and my family and writing this down caused unimaginable pain.
‘Every time I tried, I was completely overwhelmed. No real justice can be served today. Harley Whiteman has taken something from our family that can never be given back.’
She went on: ‘Kaylan was not killed in a tragic accident, it wasn’t until someone took him from us, someone was to blame and is responsible which makes it so much worse.’
Turning to Whiteman she added: ‘That person is you. You killed my 13-year-old brother who had his whole life ahead of him in the most dangerous situation, driving whilst under the influence with passengers in the car.
‘You have shown no remorse. You ruined far more than one life and as a result you deserve to face the consequences for that.’
Whiteman was also disqualified from driving for eight years and four months.
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