rsherdley commented Drug user can't be sentenced for horrific crash due to infection

A judge was forced to adjourn the sentencing of a driver who left a teenager with severe brain damage in a car accident after he heard the man had an infection from injecting illegal drugs.The decision, taken after the judge heard medical evidence, means the family of the 13-year-old victim must wait until Illya Weston has been treated over the next four weeks with intravenous antibiotics.Weston was due to be sentenced today for causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the child, of...