A bus driver who killed a nine-year-old girl riding her bike on the pavement having fallen asleep at the wheel with drugs in his system has been jailed for four years, the Metropolitan Police said.
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00:00The defendant, 23-year-old Martin Asolo Agugua of Southwark in south-east London, failed a drug test at the scene of the incident and was found to have taken cannabis the night before.
00:17According to police, CCTV showed him driving the bus west on London Road with nine-year-old Ada Bichachka on a footpath heading east on Watling Street before the defendant fell asleep and the bus drifted across the carriageway and into the path of the girl and her family.
00:40The girl's father, Bora, said the images of that horrific moment remain seared into his mind, adding that the scene replays endlessly, a constant reminder of the day his world fractured beyond repair.
00:58In this rather devastating statement, the father also added, quote-unquote, this tragedy happened on my watch, a father's ultimate failure.
01:10My world has been turned upside down and with it the foundations of my family have crumbled.
01:17The senior Crown Prosecutor, Miranda Jolly, called the defendant utterly selfish.
01:26She said Asolo Agugua was reckless and utterly selfish to get behind the wheel of a bus after consuming drugs and put many lives at risk that day.
01:38Martin Asolo Agugua was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.