BODYBUILDER WHO MOWED DOWN AND KILLED YOUNG DAD WAS 'ZOMBIFIED ON COCAINE'

 The impact was so horrific that one of Mr Jones' legs was completely ripped off while Albu's Bentley Continential almost flipped over.

A MIGRANT bodybuilder who never passed a driving test killed a young dad with his £120k Bentley while "zombified" after becoming high on a cocktail of cocaine and booze.

George Claudiu Albu, 32, was racing down Notting Hill in London at 60mph when he hit Christopher Jones, 23, who flew 15 metres across the road.

The impact was so horrific that one of Mr Jones' legs was completely ripped off while Albu's Bentley Continential almost flipped over.

The court description of the disturbing aftermath prompted Mr Jones’ mother to leave the room at Southwark Crown Court.

The father-of-one, who worked for the grounds maintenance firm Quadron, was in the road directing traffic around his broken down truck at the time of the crash.

The landscape gardener had been wearing a high-visibility jacket and standing in a well-lit area.

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Albu was high on a cocktail of cocaine and booze

Both Albu and his passenger immediately fled the scene after they saw Mr Jones' body.

Sentencing Albu to eight years after being found guilty of death by dangerous driving, judge Andrew Goymer said: "Mr Jones did nothing wrong on that evening, nothing that could be said to contribute to the terrible events that followed.

"A Bentley Continental vehicle driven by this defendant collided with the tipper can that had broken down.

"This was the culmination of a period of prolonged, sustained, aggressive and deliberate bad driving that he started earlier that evening.

"On three separate occasions in three different locations he was described as racing, weaving, revving his engine. There was loud music blaring from the car.

"It was entirely the defendant's fault that these terrible and tragic events happened. No one is to blame for it but this defendant.

"I can well understand that the defendant continues to live with what he did. So does the family of Mr Jones, they will no doubt have to live with this to the end of their days and they are entirely innocent of any blame."

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Despite the efforts of the London Air Ambulance Service Mr Jones was pronounced dead at 1.08am on 7 August.

Albu was only arrested when police traced the Bentley to his address.

He initially insisted the car belonged to another man but later admitted causing death while driving without a licence and by dangerous driving.

Albu apologised to the family and offered to pay funeral costs.

Mr Jones leaves behind a five-year-old daughter.

Michael Cogan, defending, said: "Mr Albu is suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, although he accepts this is entirely of his own making.

"Nothing he can do will ever bring this man back. He accepts entirely that this man was merely doing his job, properly, and was not personally responsible for what sadly happened to him."