In February, Jackson, 27, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n
Making a victim impact statement to the court, Aalia’s mother Samira Shafi described Aalia as the “most amazing daughter” and said losing her had left an “unbearable void”.<\/p>\n
“We were like sisters and best friends,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We would watch TV, cook together, go to concerts together, we travelled the world together, had dinner together.<\/p>\n
“When you lose a child, you don’t just lose a presence of someone in your life, you lose a part of yourself.”<\/p>\n
Referring to Jackson, she said: “This man brought her bright future to an end.<\/p>\n
“Instead of celebrating her graduation I’m choosing words for her gravestone.”<\/p>\n
Aalia’s brother Zain described his sister as a “genius with a smile that could cut through steel”.<\/p>\n
“She was more than a sister, she was my best friend… my hero,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February, Jackson, 27, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460957","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=460957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}