AN uninsured driver who killed two men after jumping a red light and ploughing into an oncoming car has been jailed for 10 and a half years.

Dudley Reilly, 25, killed father-of-11 Rafique Khan and father-of-three Aurang Zeb Khan while seriously injuring two others in a horror smash at the junction of Hyndburn Road and Oxford Street in Accrington.

Facing Reilly in court, Aurang Zeb's widow Naragus Khan told him she will 'never be able to forgive' his reckless actions.

The judge said the 25-year-old of Floyd Road, Ribbleton, had left a 'a gaping chasm in the family life' of all of his victims.

Preston Crown Court was told Reilly left the scene immediately after the accident at 11.30pm on October 10 last year, instead of calling for help.

He had broken his own ankle and was arrested shortly after, where he claimed he had hurt himself jumping over a wall.

Reilly later admitted he was the driver of the car, but continued to deny he was travelling at double the speed limit or had gone through a red light.

It was during a later court appearance when he eventually pleading guilty.

Locking him up for more than a decade, Judge Stuart Baker said: "There is quite simply a gaping chasm in the family life of Naragus Khan and Shazia Bagum (Rafique Khan's widow).

"You are not a man of completely previous good character.

"You told the owner you were insured to drive it and your response was to flee the scene as best you could.

"You did not summon the emergency services or stay with your passengers. You didn’t even stop to see what injuries were sustained by the occupants of the Vauxhall Vectra. Your actions show a selfish disregard for the people involved.”

Reilly admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, two further charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving as well as two counts of causing death by driving while uninsured or disqualified.

He was sentenced to 10 and a half years for both charges of causing death by dangerous driving, as well as three-and-a-half years concurrent for causing serious injury, 18 months concurrent for two counts of causing death by dangerous driving while uninsured and three months concurrent for failure to stop at the scene of an accident.

He was also disqualified from driving for 15 years and will have to take an extended driving test before he can drive again.

Prosecutors said Reilly had been seen jumping another red light minutes before the accident.

Addressing the court, Naragus Khan said: "I have gone over what happened in my head 1,000 times since that day.

"The emotional and physical impact my husband's death has had on me has forced me to live a life I cannot recognise and become a person I do not know.

"I will never forgive the defendant for the pain his reckless actions have caused me."

Reilly had two previous traffic convictions for speeding, and criminal convictions for theft, deception and criminal damage.

He had been warned about his driving by the Mercedes's owner and passenger, Gourmeaj Singh, in the run up to the crash, prosecutor Francis McEntee told the court.

The accident happened at 11.30pm.

Rafique, 43, a rear-seat passenger, and Aurang Zeb, 42, who was driving the Vauxhall Vectra, made their way north across the busy Hyndburn Road and Oxford Street junction towards Asda when Reilly, in a Mercedes, was travelling west along Hyndburn Road and crashed into the pair.

They both died at the scene.

CCTV footage showing the high-speed smash was played before the court yesterday as the families of Mr Khan and Mr Khan watched on.

The footage showed Mr Khans' vehicle setting off at the junction as the traffic light goes green.

It was hit sideways on by Reilly a split second later at speeds later estimated to be between 49mph and 65mph.

The Vauxhall was knocked off the road into some trees, while traffic light were also knocked down.

Rafakat Khan, a friend of both the men but not a relative, was also a passenger in the Vauxhall, and suffered a broken skull, cheekbone, eye-socket, and ribs, a damaged kidney, and several bleeds on the brain.

Defending, Jaime Hamilton, said Reilly had shown remorse.

He said: "It's the last thing he sees when he goes to sleep, the first thing he sees in the morning, and he often dreams about it.

"It will stay with him for the rest of his life."

Around 4,000 people attend a joint funeral service for the two men on October 14, before their bodies were flown to Pakistan to be buried.