A disqualified driver has today (Thursday, January 11) been jailed after his ‘selfish’ actions killed his partner in a road traffic collision on the A427, near to the village of Brampton Ash last September.
Steven Michael Gaskell, formerly of Fotheringhay Road, Corby, was sentenced to five years and two months in prison at Northampton Crown Court, where he was also disqualified from driving for a further two years after his release from prison.
At an earlier court appearance in November last year, Gaskell pleaded guilty to causing the death of 23-year-old Courtney Donnelly of Corby after getting behind the wheel despite knowing that he had been disqualified from driving.
At about 10.30pm on Sunday, September 17, 2023, Gaskell was driving with mum-of-one Courtney on the A427 from Corby towards Market Harborough in a black MINI Cooper car, which he had purchased via Facebook Marketplace earlier that day.
