A “thrill-seeking” teenager who crashed his e-scooter and killed his 14-year-old friend has received a non-custodial sentence.
Jacob Calland, who was a passenger on the back, suffered irreversible brain injuries when it was struck by a BMW car in Wythenshawe, Manchester, on 19 March 2025.
Manchester Crown Court heard the driver, who is now 15 and cannot be named due to his age, had received the scooter as a present from his mother two weeks before the crash.
“My heart has been smashed into a thousand pieces and there is nothing that can be done to fix it. My life is a living nightmare,” Jacob’s mother, Carly Calland, said in a statement read to the court.
“I climbed into the hospital bed to cuddle him and I fell asleep holding him.
“When I woke up, it was time to turn off the machines. I told Jacob I loved him just before he passed away.
“My baby boy was gone forever.”