A SUSPECTED drink-driver has appeared in court, charged with causing the death of a girl on her 17th birthday.
Callum Jim Francis Gray, 19, of Tuscan Avenue, Burnley, has been accused of causing the death of Estelle Thompson during a collision in Manchester Road, Hapton, on July 20 last year.
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Gray is said to have been driving a Ford Ka dangerously leading up to the crash. He is also charged with causing the death of the same victim while driving without due care and attention while unfit through drink.
Pennine magistrates were told that the case could only be heard at a Crown Court and Gray was sent on bail for trial.
His bail conditions include not approaching Ben Marsh or Elizabeth Marsh, Estelle’s brother and mother, before the next hearing, at Burnley Crown Court on August 17. Gray had been on police bail for a number of months until he was charged.
Unity College pupil Estelle, of Lawrence Avenue, also a former hairdressing student at Accrington & Rossendale College, lost her life after a Ford Ka, in which she was a passenger, hit a wall in Manchester Road, just outside The Stables. As well as Elizabeth and Ben Marsh, she leaves sisters Sadie and Stacey Marsh.
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