Van driver jailed for eight years for killing university student in crash

A van driver who knocked down an iron gate which hit two people, then mounted a flower bed and fatally struck a university student who was sitting on a bench in central London has been jailed for eight years.Aalia Mahomed, who was studying at King’s College London, died at the scene of the collision on the Strand on March 18 last year.The 20-year-old, who was in her second year of a physics and philosophy degree, was described by her mother Samira Shafi in a statement in court as “the most amazing daughter”.