She partied “repeatedly” in the months after their deaths, frequently uploaded to TikTok<\/a> and her first court appearance was delayed for two weeks because she went on a skiing trip.<\/p>\n On Friday she was sentenced to 14 months behind bars, having earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of causing the teenagers’ deaths by careless or inconsiderate driving.<\/p>\n Image: Mr Carter and Mr Stephenson had been passengers in Lonsdale’s Kia Niro when the three headed to an Esso petrol station off the A1 in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n The car was travelling at 76mph when Lonsdale misjudged a bend in the 60mph road, killing both passengers almost immediately.<\/p>\n Lonsdale, who passed her driving test about 12 weeks before the crash, escaped with just a small injury to her wrist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Moments earlier, Lonsdale had been racing another friend on the A1 – briefly travelling at 100mph, the court heard.<\/p>\n Sarah Carter said of her son, who wanted to pursue a career in law: “Harry was taken from us because Madeleine chose to speed.<\/p>\n “He will never be able to celebrate the amazing exam results that he achieved.”<\/p>\n Image: Ms Carter said it “adds insult to injury” that Lonsdale was “partying repeatedly” and “choreographing TikToks” while she planned her son’s funeral.<\/p>\n Victoria Stephenson, George’s mother, told the court: “We will never see him graduate or find a job after university.<\/p>\n “We didn’t get to celebrate his 18th birthday with him. Instead, we had his funeral.”<\/p>\n Image: She said that when Lonsdale went on a skiing trip, delaying her first court appearance by two weeks, it “only added to the torment”.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: John McNally, defending Lonsdale, said: “She knows that there is nothing she can say, do, to take the pain away.<\/p>\n “She knows it will weigh heavily on her for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n “Her regret for what happened is deep and \u2026 her friends will remain, and are, in her thoughts.”<\/p>\n Lonsdale was disqualified from driving for three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver who went on a skiing holiday months after killing two teenage passengers has been sentenced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474151","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\/474151","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=474151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"George](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-george-stephenson_7191456.jpg\")
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\n George Stephenson, 17, who was killed alongside Harrison Carter, 18. Pic: Lincolnshire Police\/PA<\/p>\n![\"Harrison](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-harrison-carter_7191486.jpg\")
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\n Harrison Carter wanted to pursue a career in law before his life was cut short. Pic: Lincolnshire Police\/PA<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-lonsdale-madeleine_7191487.jpg\")
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\n The teenagers were killed after crashing in Toll Bar Road, Marston. Pic: Lincolnshire Police\/PA <\/p>\n
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