Nigerian Mum Who Accidentally Killed Her Child During Epileptic Fit Spared Jail..

The Judge said mum-of-four Anya had an “intermittent and unreliable” attitude to her medication.

Anya killed the youngest of her children, 18-month-old Eugenie, and left electrician Dean Snow unable to work for several months when her Vauxhall Zafira people mounted a grass verge before ploughing into his van in November 2015.

In the back of her car, accident investigators discovered a prescription given to her in September for epilepsy drug phenytoinsodium (corr) which had not been collected.

Sentencing Anya, Judge Poulet QC said: “The consequence of the crash was catastrophic. “Members of the public tried to help and your two children were removed from the back of the car.

“You were seen and heard to be screaming you were injured and were crying out about your own condition and were also shouting that you wanted to die.”Your own 18-month-old daughter died in hospital just a few days after the crash from her injuries.

“A driving expert has concluded that there were no faults in either vehicle involved in the crash and neither was there any event that could have contributed to it. “He said the crash was due to driver input, whether initially by error or as a result of a medical episode.

“Your seizures were not fully controlled and the medication which you should have taken regularly was some what intermittent and unreliable. “A prescription for phenytoinsodium was found in the back of your car and was uncollected from September.

“You were well aware of your condition and that it was not fully controllable. “I am quite satisfied that you have been told by at least one neurologist that you must not drive.”

Anya was given a 24 month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

She was also made subject to a tagged curfew when she will have to stay indoors between 9pm and 6am for two months.