A drug-driver who caused the death of a three-week-old baby in a 90mph car crash while high on amphetamines has been jailed for 14 years.
Worcester Crown Court head Craig Nunn, 40, of Sandy Lane in Stourport, drove his Ford Focus through a red light in the early hours of 26 October 2024 on the A451 in Worcestershire.
His car smashed into a black Suzuki Vitara with such force that three-week-old Harley Wilkinson, who was sitting on his father’s lap on the back seat, was flung from the vehicle and onto the road.
Prosecutor Cathlyn Orchard told the court that it was Nunn who alerted his parents to Harley’s whereabouts, telling them: “Your baby is over there”.
Harley suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and died at the scene, while his father Jake Wilkinson survived but with a cervical spine fracture, a severed artery and a blood clot in his neck.
Harley’s mother Imogen Bradley was driving when the collision occurred as she turned from Walter Nash Way West onto the A451 in the direction of Stourport.
Pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer said it was not possible to say whether Harley would have survived the collision if he had been strapped into his car seat.
Nunn, who has 21 convictions for 51 previous offences, including dangerous driving, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and drug driving.
The court heard that after the crash, a knife, an imitation pistol and an axe were found in Nunn’s vehicle.
Nunn initially tried to claim his brakes had failed but no faults were found. Data from his vehicle also revealed he was driving at over 90mph immediately before the collision.
Ms Bradley told the court that her world had been “ripped apart” by the loss of her “miracle” son.
Nunn, who appeared at the sentencing hearing via video link from HMP Hewell, was told by judge Martin Jackson that amphetamines were probably a major contributory factor to the collision.
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“You may have found it something that assisted you with your ADHD. I am satisfied that your driving must have been highly impaired by your habitual use of amphetamine.
“You cut Harley’s life very short. He was never given the chance to grow up and find his way in the world. That was down to your actions entirely.”
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Adam Western, on behalf of Nunn, said the defendant had “accepted his wrongdoing unequivocally” and did not wish to ever drive again.
Nunn was jailed for 14 years for causing death by dangerous driving, as well as concurrent sentences of three years for causing serious injury to Mr Wilkinson, two months for possessing the weapons and three months for driving with a specified drug above the specified limit.
He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.
