A second youth from Islington has pleaded guilty to charges connected with the death of a teenager in a scooter crash.
The 16-year-old appeared at Highbury Corner Youth Court on yesterday and admitted to the offence of allowing to be carried, following a collision which killed Joe Walker, 17, in October. He will be sentenced at the same court on March 20.
Earlier a 17-year-old, also from Islington, pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified in connection with the crash – he was sentenced to an 18-month rehabilitation order and disqualified from driving for 12 months at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on January 20.
Meanwhile another Islington boy, 15, is on bail awaiting an appearance at Blackfriars Crown Court tomorrow (Thursday) charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failure to stop, causing death whilst uninsured and causing death whilst uninsured.
Joe, a promising footballer from Stroud Green, was riding a scooter along Seven Sisters Road, near Moreton Road, Tottenham, when the collision occurred. He died just two months before his friend Henry Hicks, whose funeral took place last week
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