A driver and a passenger who crashed a stolen BMW into a care home killing two elderly residents has been jailed.
Sam Asgari-Tabar was behind the wheel of the car during a 100mph police chase when he crashed into Highcliffe Care Home in Sunderland in July.
The 21-year-old, along with Reece Parish, were taking a BMW for a test drive when they stole it, with a woman still inside the car.
Police were alerted to the car, which was stolen in the Fenham area of Newcastle, and it was spotted in the Sunderland area 15 minutes later.
Eight residents were treated in hospital for their injuries and two days later, a woman in her 90s and a woman in her 80s, neither of whom were in the eight taken to hospital, had died.
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Asgari-Tabar has been jailed for five years and two months. Parish was jailed for 19 months.
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Both men have pleaded guilty to stealing the BMW, and Asgari-Tabar admitted robbery and causing serious injury by dangerous driving to an elderly care home resident who suffered spinal fractures in the crash.
Parish was jailed for another 18 months for violent disorder in Sunderland during last summer’s riots.
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