He was driving a BMW 1 Series and was allegedly racing Bhachu’s Audi TT RS.
(Source: West Yorkshire Police) Posecutors told Riyat’s trial that he had been driving at 89mph on a road with a 40mph speed limit shortly before the collision.
Bhachu’s own dashcam captured a conversation between the two men at traffic lights, during which Bhachu boasted that his Audi had 560 horsepower and that he had only been using quarter throttle.
He initially told police he had been “doing a steady 40″ and later suggested he might have exceeded the speed limit because he was travelling to a work meeting, according to the BBC. They were two men showing off their fast cars on a busy dual carriageway,” Detective Inspector Paul Conroy, of West Yorkshire Police’s Major Collision Enquiry Team, said. Riyat denied racing Bhachu. After watching footage in court, he revised his estimate to 50mph. West Yorkshire Police identified Riyat as the driver of a black BMW 135i using dashcam and CCTV footage supplied by members of the public. “Bhachu and Riyat didn’t know each other. “It is over two years since Bhachu admitted his part in this tragic incident and I know that the wait for justice has taken its toll.
My thoughts are firmly with them today,” he said.
“This sentencing hearing though does mark the end of a long criminal justice process for Justyna and Lena’s family.
Because of the wreckage after the collision, the BBC also reported that Riyat was forced to stop. He took photographs before driving around the scene and continuing to work. The jury took less than two hours to convict him on two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.