A man has pleaded guilty to killing a university student after he struck her with his van in central London.
Aalia Mahomed, 20, who was in her second year of studying a physics and philosophy degree at King’s College London, died at the scene of the collision on the Strand on 18 March 2025.
Christopher Jackson, 27, of Southampton, appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday and pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
A court heard previously that the van collided with a metal gate, knocking it off its hinges, before hitting the bench where Mahomed was sitting.