Driver high on drugs handed police beer bottle moments after killing teen in crash

A drink-and-drug driver who killed a 17-year-old girl after crashing his car handed police officers a bottle of beer minutes after the accident.

Keilan Roberts was high on cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy and had drank alcohol when he crashed his car in Fochriw, South Wales, in July 2022.

His passenger Chloe Hayman, 17, was left with fatal chest injuries and died at the scene.

His car, which would have failed an MOT inspection, collided with railings on a cattle grid on the country road, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Roberts, then 21, was filmed at the scene by officers, in which he is holding a bottle of Peroni as seen in new series ‘999: What Happened Next’.

He tells police: ‘I was driving home. I had four bottles of Peroni in my car and that happened. I will be honest with you. Soon as that happened, I drank it all at once.’

He even admits to consuming alcohol in the last 20 minutes.

He adds: ‘I know for a fact I’m going to fail this breathalyzer, I’m going to go to the station and I’m going to fail that one as well, I know I am.

‘Maybe I shouldn’t have drunk them. But I was not drink driving, that wasn’t the case.’

Chloe had visited the nightclub with her friends, but they had all left and her phone had died meaning she was unable to contact anyone.

Roberts offered to take her home as his friends were driving and he would give her a lift home in the morning.

But instead the pair were dropped off where his car was parked so Roberts could take Chloe back to his home.

When he got behind the wheel, he crashed.

Chloe’s mum Danielle O’Halloran said her daughter’s death had left her ‘utterly broken’.

She said: ‘I thought time was meant to heal but this isn’t the case when you lose a child. If anything, it hurts more and more each day.’

Roberts pleaded guilty to four counts of causing death by careless driving while under the influence.

Each charge relates to each of the substances he had taken.

Despite having his sentence increase from three years and nine months to five years and three months in September 2023, he has recently been freed from prison on license.

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