A man has been charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of a fifteen-year-old boy.

Jehovah’s Witness Joshua McAuley died after a car collided with a shop in Cape Hill, Smethwick, on May 15.

A 28-year-old from Winson Green is due to appear before Warley magistrates on Monday.

He is also charged with failing to stop at the scene of a traffic collision and failing to report an accident.

Joshua, who was a pupil at the Shireland Collegiate Academy in Smethwick, was a straight A student, who was just about to sit his GCSEs.

Horrified neighbours watched as a car ploughed into the front of the off licence and grocers Saya International Foods, pinning Joshua, of Church Gardens, against the front of the shop and throwing a woman pedestrian down the street.

He died in hospital six hours later. It later emerged he had refused a blood transfusion because of his beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.