'Show-off' driver who killed two teenagers at illegal road race in Oldbury to appeal against his sentence this week
A dangerous driver who killed two teenagers while 'showing off' in his high performance car is appealing against his 13-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
Dhiya Al Maamoury was jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court last year for causing the deaths of 19-year-old Ben Corfield, from Sedgley, and 16-year-old Liberty Charris, of Upper Gornal, when he ploughed into a group of pedestrians at an unofficial car-racing event in Oldbury.
His appeal will be heard by the High Court in London on Thursday (July 24).
Also seriously injured were Ben and Liberty's friends Ethan Kilburn, who was 19 at the time of the crash in November 2022, and Ebonie Parkes, who was 18.
The court heard that Al Maamoury, who was 54 at the time, lost control of his car after accelerating rapidly from a side road.
The court was told he had imported his Nissan Skyline from Japan about 18 months before the collision, and modified it so the exhaust would spit fire and fitted a turbocharger.
