{"id":708227,"date":"2026-07-24T04:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:09:15","slug":"man-who-drove-at-and-killed-boy-riding-stolen-e-bike-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708227\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who drove at and killed boy riding stolen e-bike jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who deliberately rammed his car into a teenage boy riding a stolen bike has been jailed for 16 years for murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terrence King drove into 15-year-old Devon Simmonds-Caines on Rowrah Crescent in Middleton, Greater Manchester on 22 July last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard Simmonds-Caines had stolen the \u00a33,000 e-bike from another boy on the Langley Estate before he was pursued by King, who steered his vehicle into him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King, 60, who was found guilty after a two-week trial, was handed a 17-year sentence at Minshull Street Crown Court earlier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder at the outset of the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior investigating officer Duncan Thorpe, of Greater Manchester Police, said King &#8220;deliberately drove his car into Devon&#8221; and caused the injuries that led to his death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who deliberately rammed his car into a teenage boy riding a stolen bike has been jailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708227","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\/708227","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=708227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}