A DRIVER was 14 times the drug-drive limit when he killed his girlfriend in a 136mph crash while fleeing cops.
Kane Farragher, who had taken a cocktail of narcotics and was banned from the roads, refused to stop the BMW M135 he was driving.
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Taylor Jenkins died in a horror crash Credit: PA
Her boyfriend was fleeing police when he hit a car head-on Credit: NNP
The 24-year-old reached speeds of 136mph as he tore through Jattvibederland before swerving on to the wrong side of the road.
Farragher then smashed head-on into another car – killing front seat passenger and girlfriend Taylor Jenkins, who was also 24.
A friend who was sat in the back of the BMW suffered a fractured skull in the March 1 horror.
Farragher has now been jailed for 12 years and nine months after he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Taylor’s family paid tribute in moving statements read to the court
Farragher has now been jailed
He also admitted causing death by careless driving while over the limit for cocaine, a cocaine breakdown product, MDMA, ketamine and cannabis, and causing her death by driving while disqualified.
Farragher further admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving in relation to the back seat passenger.
Newcastle Crown Court heard he was driving Taylor, who was from Scotland, and his friend back from an event when the BMW was flagged as a “vehicle of interest”.
Northumbria Police attempted to pull Farragher over but he instead drove off – leading to the high speed chase.
Prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said tests showed Farragher’s level of BZE, a breakdown product of cocaine, was 791 – with the legal limit 50.
His level of cocaine, which has a limit of ten, was 32, while he was also over the limit for MDMA, ketamine level and THC (cannabis).
In victim impact statements, Taylor’s heartbroken family spoke of her passion for showjumping andand the pain of her loss when she had so much to live for.
Her mum said she feels “sad and angry”, adding: “My heart is damaged and beaten due to the pain I never asked for.”
Taylor’s dad described the devastating loss of “my rascal, my baby, my light” who was ripped way without warning or reason which has left a “suffocating agony”.
He added: “The silence she has left behind is overwhelming.
“I ache for her laughter, her beautiful cheeky smile.”
The court heard Farragher has convictions for 15 offences, including driving and drugs offences in Liverpool and Scotland.
As well as a jail term, Farragher was banned from driving for 13-and-a-half years.
Judge Penny Moreland said: “I want to pause and acknowledge the dreadful loss you inflicted on Taylor Jenkins’ family and friends when you caused her death.
“No sentence that I pass, nothing you can do can ever put right the terribly harm which you did that night.”
