{"id":124705,"date":"2022-09-16T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/criminal-who-killed-man-in-crash-jailed-thanks-to-uncanny-witness-sketch"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:50:57","slug":"criminal-who-killed-man-in-crash-jailed-thanks-to-uncanny-witness-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/criminal-who-killed-man-in-crash-jailed-thanks-to-uncanny-witness-sketch","title":{"rendered":"Criminal who killed man in crash jailed thanks to uncanny witness sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;dangerous&#8221; criminal who killed a young man in a crash in east London has been jailed for 24 years thanks to an uncanny witness sketch. Danny Smith, 44, of Manford Way, Chigwell , smashed into a Yamaha motorcycle being ridden by Saleem Ahmed, 20, as he tried to overtake two cars in Hainault Road, Redbridge , on December 17 last year. A witness had seen Smith, who had been driving erratically in a grey Audi for 30 minutes prior to the collision, and drew a crucial sketch which identified him following his arrest two months later. The Metropolitan Police said Smith was jailed for 24 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court on September 5 for causing Mr Ahmed&#8217;s death by dangerous driving while unqualified and uninsured and failing to stop following the incident. Smith also admitted a number of other offences, including robbery, burglary, handling stolen goods, criminal damage, theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous driving in relation to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;dangerous&#8221; criminal who killed a young man in a crash in east London has been jailed for 24 years thanks to an uncanny witness sketch.Danny Smith, 44, of Manford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,57],"class_list":["post-124705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-public-safety","tag-traffic-accidents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}