THE family of a mother-of-four killed by a serial joyrider in Manchester has attacked the courts after he was jailed for eight years.
Devon Pinnock, 21, had a "dreadful" driving record and was on his third ban when he jumped a red light at 100mph and ploughed head-on into the Citroen Saxo driven by 38-year-old nurse Tina Boucher.
Pinnock, already serving a five year Asbo, had stolen a car and crashed it at speed into a parked vehicle for which he was given a suspended sentence and community order just three months before the crash.
On Thursday, he was jailed for eight years at Manchester Crown Court for causing death by dangerous driving and driving while disqualified. He was also banned from driving for five years.
Failed
Outside court the victim's mother, Janet Boucher, said he should have got the maximum 14 years and the courts had failed by releasing him time and again before he killed her only child.
"It has taken the death of our beloved Tina to put him in prison," she said, in tears.
"I think he will do it again. He's done this five or six times. He just doesn't care. Tina was such a lovely happy person, he's taken all that away from us."
Officers said they were "frustrated" by the likes of Pinnock being repeatedly caught only to see them walk free from court - but they had no power over sentencing.
The defendant had been in and out of the courts since the age of 14, and was serving his third driving ban when he raced through a rainy south Manchester at night, showing off to his passengers, shortly before 10pm on May 20 this year.
Behind the wheel of a VW Golf, he reached 100mph, jumping red lights and overtaking on the wrong side of the road.
Witnesses saw it "fly" past them, one commenting he was "going to kill somebody", William Baker, prosecuting, told the court.