'We invited the man who killed our son to his funeral - that's where he showed his true colours'

A grieving couple whose teenage son was killed in a horror crash invited the driver to his funeral - but say he then ‘lied’ about what really happened.

Teenage soldier Jack Paolucci and his fiancée Courtney Jennings were both killed in a car Bradley Clough was driving in October 2021 after he crashed into a tree. Jack’s parents Ben and Becky Paolucci said they talked to Bradley at their son’s wake - and "would have given him a hug" had he admitted the truth, BirminghamLive reports.

But the judge who sentenced Clough for causing death by careless driving said it was "less than attractive" that he had lied to police about being blinded by oncoming lights when his overloaded Renault Clio smashed into a tree with seven people inside. Jack and his fiancée Courtney Jennings, both serving soldiers, were killed and two other passengers were injured.

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Speaking in detail for the first time since 25-year-old Clough - a private in the Royal Fusiliers - was jailed earlier this month, the couple, from Stockland Green, Erdington, said they just wanted him to show some remorse. They added they were still waiting to find out exactly how Jack died more than two years after the tragedy.

Ben and Becky were at home when they were awoken in the early hours of Saturday, October 30, 2021 and told the unimaginable news that their son, a lance corporal with the 1st Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, had died. Becky said: “We had two policemen knock on our door, just after three in the morning.

“They told us Jack had died. We asked about Courtney as they were