{"id":424556,"date":"2026-02-14T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:31:14","slug":"liberty-mitchell-jailed-for-causing-crash-that-killed-two-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424556\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Mitchell jailed for causing crash that killed two people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Stirling, defending, suggested Mitchell&#8217;s actions were a result of &#8220;inexperience rather than irresponsibility&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that Mitchell had only passed her driving test three weeks earlier and would not have understood the risk of the manoeuvre she was attempting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire Police said an analysis of Mitchell&#8217;s social media found that she had been filming Snapchat videos while behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These videos showed her &#8220;lack of care for driving safely&#8221;, police said, with one showing her veering onto the opposite side of the road towards an oncoming car as friends shouted for her to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Lowe said: &#8220;You were, at the time, a reckless and immature young driver suffering from the frankly common teenage delusion that you were invulnerable and free to do as you wished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The lives of all the victims and their families have been irrevocably changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mitchell must serve half of her sentence in custody before being eligible for release on licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also been disqualified from driving for eight years and four months, must undertake an extended driving test to regain her licence, and was ordered to pay a statutory surcharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Stirling, defending, suggested Mitchell&#8217;s actions were a result of &#8220;inexperience rather than irresponsibility&#8221;. He added that Mitchell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-424556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}