A 19-year-old man, Kian Bateman, is jailed after a fatal crash in which Shelley Davies, 38, was struck by a car and later died in hospital. Multiple outlets report that Bateman had inhaled nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, before getting into a vehicle that he drove into Davies and her partner. Davies’s partner, David Bratcher, is reported to have been injured in the incident. BBC News says Davies dies in hospital three weeks after the collision, while other coverage describes the case as a deliberate attack. Reports also state that the incident took place outside a nightclub in Cardiff on 27 September last year. The media accounts say Bateman’s use of nitrous oxide occurred shortly before he carried out the driving that caused the deaths and injuries. One outlet reports the sentence as life imprisonment, while the others describe the outcome as a jail term following the conviction. The reporting agrees on the central facts: Bateman’s age, his use of laughing gas/nitrous oxide, the car driving into Davies and Bratcher, Davies’s death, and the location and timing of the incident.
Teen jailed for fatal car crash after using laughing gas, court hears
A 19-year-old man, Kian Bateman, is jailed after a fatal crash in which Shelley Davies, 38, was struck by a car and later died in hospital. Multiple outlets report that Bateman had inhaled nitrous oxi...
- Kian Bateman, 19, is convicted and sentenced to jail for a fatal car crash.
- He had inhaled nitrous oxide (laughing gas) before driving the car involved in the crash.
- Shelley Davies, 38, is struck and later dies in hospital; her partner David Bratcher is injured.
- The incident occurs outside a Cardiff nightclub on 27 September last year.
- Bateman’s driving is described by outlets as deliberate or targeted, with the court case focusing on the combination of drug use and the crash.
Kian Bateman, 19, was high on nitrous oxide - laughing gas - before he got into his car and targeted Shelley Davies, 38, outside a Cardiff nightclub on September 27 last year.
2 months agoKian Bateman, 19, was high on nitrous oxide - laughing gas - before he got into his car and targeted Shelley Davies, 38, outside a Cardiff nightclub on September 27 last year.
2 months agoKian Bateman, 19, was inhaling nitrous oxide before he drove his mum's car at Shelley Davies, whose job helped people struggling with addiction.
2 months agoKian Bateman, 19, was high on laughing gas when he drove into and killed mum-of-three Shelley Davies, 38, while also injuring her partner David Bratcher
2 months agoShelley Davies died in hospital three weeks after Kian Bateman drove into her and her partner.
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