A Northern Ireland driver who killed two young people in and left another with a fractured skull has been jailed for five years.
Handing down the jail term and a ten-year driving ban to 44-year-old Wayne Johnston, Belfast Crown Court judge Mr Justice Morgan said that having heard the evidence in the case, those who witnessed the tragedy on December 19th on west Belfast's Springfield Road saw "a scale of devastation and destruction which they will forever retain in their memories".
Last month Johnston, formerly from the Highfield estate in north Belfast was unanimously convicted on two counts of killing 11-year-old Christopher Shaw and 8-year-old Emma Lynch and also of causing grievous bodily harm to Christopher's brother Darren by dangerous driving.
The judge said the extent of the loss suffered by the Shaw and Lynch families "is incalculable and there are no words or indeed actions of mine which can ever repair the hurt."