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Jailed after killing fiancee outside their own baby shower
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A dad-to-be accidentally ran over and killed his pregnant fiancee outside their baby shower just three weeks before the child was due.
Daniel Dutfield, 24, who passed his driving test a year before the crash, was nearly three times over the limit when he stormed out of the barbecue, upset at the low turnout. Both the unborn baby girl and 22-year-old Jessica Fenner died in the tragic incident.
Dutfield got behind the wheel of his souped up turbocharged 1.8l Ford Focus which had been lowered and a 'racing style' clutch fitted before speeding off, accelerating up to 60 miles an hour around the estate in Morden, Surrey.
As Ms Fenner came out to see what was happening on July 5 this year, Dutfield lost control around a corner and ploughed into her. The baby girl was dead on arrival at hospital and Ms Fenner died the next day.
Avirup Chaudhuri, in mitigation, said: "The word tragedy is perhaps over-used these days, but nobody can deny the term is appropriate to this case."
The court told Dutfield was suffering from depression and had been deemed a suicide risk in custody, though it was also revealed that he had helped prevent the suicides of two other inmates while on remand. He had no previous convictions, and no points on his driving licence.
Prosecutor Mark Paltenghi told the court: "To celebrate the coming of their baby a baby shower and BBQ was held at the defendant's mother's home.
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he must be feeling bad enough already, no?
ugh