Cameron Hughes, who was inhaling laughing gas just before a crash which killed Bonny Rae Barrow, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years by a judge at Preston on Monday (October 30).<br /><br />The 24-year-old had also been sending messages on his mobile phone seconds before his van ploughed through a metal barrier and plunged down a steep ravine, the court heard.<br /><br />Bonny, 15, suffered catastrophic injuries from which she died in hospital the following day.<br /><br />But her distraught family, including mum Sarah Barrow, stormed out of court amid shouts of “it’s a joke” and “it’s definitely not over” when Judge Heather Lloyd passed sentence.<br /><br />Hughes, 24, who was a close friend of Bonny’s family, was also disqualified from driving for eight years and nine months.<br /><br />He will need to take a new test before he is allowed back behind the wheel.<br /><br />Judge Lloyd told him he would have to face the effects of what he had done for the rest of his life, but added: “At least you have the rest of your life.”
