A driver has been jailed after he ran over and killed a seven-year-old boy while uninsured.

Emergency services were called to Longfield Avenue, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, after a BMW X4 driven by Nathan Shaw, 35, collided with Jack Rooke in the road.

The young boy was given emergency treatment and rushed to hospital, but he passed away a short time later following the incident, which happened around 6 pm on August 30, 2023.

An investigation was opened by West Yorkshire Police, and it was later revealed that Shaw was driving whilst uninsured.

Yesterday, the BMW driver was sentenced to 42 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court after pleading guilty to causing death while driving uninsured and two perverting the course of justice offences.

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He was also disqualified from driving for 57 months.

In a victim personal statement, Jack’s mother said that her life had been wrecked and she will ‘never recover’ from her son’s death.

She said: ‘It’s hard to parent when you have been killed inside; I will never be who I used to be. I can’t accept that Jack has gone, and I never will. I replay his funeral, me having to carry my little boy in a coffin.

‘Looking at him in the chapel of rest, wanting and wishing him to open his eyes. Travelling in the ambulance with Jack, seeing the paramedics trying to save his life, then being told that he had gone, is a parent’s worst nightmare that no one should have to go through.

‘Leaving the hospital without them having to tell your other children. How will I navigate that and deal with it for the rest of my life?’

She also described the massive impact Jack’s loss had wrought on his sisters, including Mya, who had lost her best friend.

Following the collision, Shaw was arrested at the scene and later charged following an in-depth investigation into the circumstances of the collision by the Major Collision Enquiry Team.

Detective Sergeant Nina Roper of MCET, who led the investigation, said: ‘The death of Jack has been an absolute tragedy for his family, as his mother’s victim family statement so movingly illustrates.

‘The loss of such a loving and happy boy at such a young age has clearly been absolutely devastating, and the scale of their loss is hard for many of us to comprehend.

‘Our thoughts continue to remain with them following the sentencing of Nathan Shaw today.’

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