A man has been jailed for the hit-and-run death of a four-year-old girl who was struck by his speeding car when it mounted a pavement in Merseyside.
Violet-Grace Youens died after Aidan McAteer's car struck her on Prescot Road, St Helens, on 24 March.
McAteer fled to Amsterdam but later pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court.
He was given a jail sentence of nine years and four months.
Violet-Grace's grandmother Angela French was seriously injured in the crash.
Dean Brennan, 27, a passenger in the car, had pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and assisting an offender.
He was jailed for six years and eight months.
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