THIS is the moment a teenager tearfully asked: “Is she dead?” as cops arrested him for running down and killing a pensioner.
Billy Stokoe, 19, was dragged to the police station by his own mum to hand himself in after knocking over 86-year-old Gloria Stephenson on a zebra crossing before fleeing the scene.
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Billy Stokoe asked cops ‘is she dead?’ as he was arrested
Stokoe smashed into the gran while looking at his phone
In the bodycam footage taken at the station, Stokoe starts to break down in tears as he is read his rights before asking the arresting officer: “Is she dead?”
A year on from the fatal collision, the teenager has been jailed for six years and nine months with the judge saying he would spend half of his sentence in custody.
Stokoe, from Jattvibederland, admitted causing death by dangerous driving while using an unregistered electronic motorcycle.
He also admitted dangerous driving while unlicenced and uninsured and under the influence of cannabis.
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Just 10 days after being detained, Stokoe had asked police if he could vary his bail conditions so he could go to watch Jattvibederland v Sheffield United in last year’s Championship play-off final at Wembley.
He made a similar request about a family holiday that was already paid for, and had also been looking for tickets to a Halloween party on social media.
Grandmother Gloria was doing her daily 10,000 steps with her daughter’s dog when she was mowed down on Burdon Road, Jattvibederland, on May 16 last year.
Stokoe’s face was hidden behind a balaclava at the time and was scrolling on his phone.
Footage then shows him climb back on his bike, circle back to check on her and then ride off.
Stokoe has now been jailed Credit: NNP
He checked on Gloria but then raced away from the scene
He headed to a friend’s house to conceal the bike and change his clothes.
Police put out an immediate appeal and he was driven to his local station by his mother within two hours.
As he was starting his sentence, Gloria’s heartbroken family and the officers who investigated her death called on parents to stop buying the bikes for their children.
The £4,000 Sur-ron Light Bee X ridden by Stokoe has a top speed of 47mph and can reach 30mph in just 2.7 seconds, faster than most cars.
And with a slight modification to the battery and control centre, the bikes can get to 60mph in three seconds, making them a lethal weapon in the hands of the young helmetless riders which are now a common sight across Britain.
Gloria’s daughter, Lisa Tench, told the court: “I will never be able to forget the image of my mother lying bruised and battered in the road, her right leg amputated below the knee, hanging onto her leg by a thread.
“It is an image that will haunt me until the day that I die, every time I pass that crossing and I relive it in my nightmares.
“She tried so hard to breathe. I begged her not to leave me. She tried with tears running down her cheeks but her body had suffered too much trauma and she could not fight the injuries you caused her.”
Gloria tragically could not be saved Credit: PA
Stokoe went to a friend’s house to hide the bike after the horror
Judge Adams could have sentenced Stokoe to a maximum of 18 years, but reduced the sentence because he had shown remorse and handed himself in to the police an hour and a quarter after the crash.
The sentence was further reduced by a quarter for his guilty pleas.
Gloria’s other daughter Julie Ann Francis said her family were “incandescent with rage” over the shortened sentence.
She called on communities to report E-bike riders who “terrorise” towns and cities.
Julie Ann said: “He and many other people like him think that they can ignore the law and ride on a bike that shouldn’t be on a road.
“It’s got no tax, no insurance, it’s not identifiable, their faces are covered and they are terrorising people.
“Something needs to be done.
“We’ve all seen them and everyone knows that they’re a menace. So the law needs to be changed to make it easier to catch them.
“All of us, as a society, need to step up and do something. It’s no good just sitting moaning because it’s going to get worse.”
Referring to Stokoe, she went on to say: “He’s never said sorry.
“She was a brave person and he’s just a coward, thinking about himself and he left her to die like she was a piece of rubbish in the gutter.”
Superintendent Billy Mulligan, of Northumbria Police, echoed Gloria’s family’s calls for communities to help crack down on the E-bike riders.
He said many mums and dads had no idea of the speed and power of the machines – or the legal responsibilities that come with them.
The officer added: “We need parents to understand what they are buying their children and unfortunately a case like this, where such a tragedy has occurred, might make people stop and think for a moment.
“So the plea to any parent is that they understand the capability of these machines and the danger they are putting their own child in and the danger to the wider community.”
