A getaway driver from Dudley who killed a man after hurtling through a red light as he sped away from a bungled shop raid has been jailed.

Robert Maxfield, who was banned from driving at the time, was on licence from jail and had committed 71 offences over the previous 11 years.

Maxfield was ordered to be locked up indefinitely by Wolverhampton Crown Court and will spend at least four-and-a-half years in prison.

The 33-year-old was at the wheel of a Subaru Impreza which careered across a junction into a Fiat Punto, killing Smethwick man Tauseef Shaukat, who was due to get married on his 25th birthday, 48 hours later.

Maxfield, of Ernest Road, was escaping with two teenagers who had broken into the Co-op in Brandhall, Oldbury. He was waiting outside in the car which had false plates and been bought by a man using a fake name.

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