A pick-up driver has been jailed for 32 months after he ploughed into and killed a moped rider while he was still high on cocaine from the night before.
Darren Silvester, 45, was still 10 times over the limit for cocaine when he pulled out in front of father-to-be Damien Walton, 33, on a quiet residential road in Southampton just before Christmas 2023.
Walton had been riding his Lexmoto Diablo moped to work when Silvester, high on drugs from the previous night, smashed into him while exiting a petrol station in his Ford Ranger pick-up truck.
A court heard Silvester had not used the class A drug for 12 hours but prosecutors said he 'took a risk' by getting behind the wheel.
Tragically, Walton died at the scene on December 19, from catastrophic inquires. But the heartbreak didn't end there.
