A drugged-up driver who killed his brother and two other passengers in a horror crash has been jailed for more than eight years.
Samuel Williamson had also been drinking and had no licence when he got behind the wheel of a convertible Vauxhall Astra on December 4, 2020.The motor crashed back onto the road, but his brother James Williamson, 37, along with Mandy McCallum, 30 and 62-year-old Ernest Beveridge never survived the incident in Bothwell, South Lanarkshire.Unemployed Williamson today returned to the High Court in Glasgow having earlier pleaded guilty to causing the deaths by dangerous driving.
"This caused the vehicle to become airborne and it continued before the rear of the car struck a tree."Two of the passengers were thrown from the vehicle as a result."Williamson was trapped in the driver's seat along with the other passenger in the car also hurt. After emergency services arrived, Williamson was noted to be smelling of alcohol and later claimed he had only been steering the Astra.
Tests went on to reveal the presence of six different drugs in his system including cocaine, morphine and street Valium.It was estimated that the car was travelling up to 60 miles per hour in a 30 zone at the time.Williamson had also sustained numerous fractures as well as a bleed to the brain and a punctured lung as a result of the crash.
John Brannigan, defending, today said Williamson is"extremely devastated by the impact" of what happened.
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