LIVE: GMP officer who left boy paralysed and with catastrophic injuries is JAILED

A police officer who caused serious injury to a boy of 15 while driving dangerously on a 999 call has been jailed. She was found guilty by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court last month.

PC Sarah De Meulemeester, 26, drove at speeds of up to 61mph on 30mph limit roads, also going the wrong way around a traffic island while travelling to an emergency in Stockport on Boxing Day, 2020. As she did this her patrol car crashed into Khia Whitehead, 15, on Garners Lane in Adswood, Stockport, leaving him paralysed and with catastrophic brain injuries.

A jury at Liverpool Crown Court found PC De Meulemeester guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a trial. The officer, of Mill Court, Chinley, Derbyshire, had admitted her driving was careless but denied it was dangerous.

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PC De Meulemeester was on bail while awaiting her sentence. Today (May 19), Judge David Aubrey KC jailed her for two and a half years.

In an emotional victim impact statement today, Khia's mum said her son is 'now like a newborn baby'. She says her son was treated at the MRI for nine months and was ‘initially in a permanent vegetative state with little awareness of the world around him’.

Khia's daily routine is now described as being fed, medicated and having physiotherapy. He has a period of ‘brain rest’ at a day centre, where he is placed in a darkened room to try and help his brain recover.

In a separate statement, the court heard from his aunt, who said has been ‘left to grieve for the shell of a person her nephew once was’.

With the boy's family watching on, in her evidence PC De Meulemeester told the court: "There's no words that can