Police officer’s son is jailed for three months for driving while disqualified after killing two people while high on cannabis in accident weeks earlier
- Max Coopey, 18, smoked cannabis last August then drove his parents’ Audi into John Shackley, 61, and Jason Imi, 48, killing both men
- Thames Valley Police did not prosecute for causing death by dangerous driving
- Police officers’ son Coopey pleaded guilty to drug-driving but was not jailed
- Weeks after the crash, while disqualified, he got back behind the wheel
- Sentencing Coopey for driving while disqualified the District Judge at Reading Magistrates Court said: ‘If you carry on driving like this you will kill someone’
Max Coopey, 18, (pictured) was found to have got behind the wheel of a car while disqualified from driving
The son of two police officers has been jailed for three months for driving while disqualified, just weeks after killing two people while high on cannabis.
Max Coopey, 18, knocked down and killed two people in Ascot, Berkshire last August but was never prosecuted over their deaths.
He was high on cannabis at the time.
Coopey, the son of a police sergeant and a former policewoman, killed father-of-three Jason Imi, 48, and his colleague John Shackley, 61, as they were walking back from dinner in Reading last August.
He was banned from the road following the deaths.
However, he was only convicted of drug-driving after a police collision investigator concluded that it had been an accident.
Today, as he was sentenced for driving while disqualified, the judge, who appeared unaware of the deaths he’d previously caused, told Coopey: ‘If you carry on driving like this you will kill someone. I have a duty to protect the public.’
Coopey was spotted by PCSO Gary Clarke driving near his parents’ home in Ascot, Berkshire just weeks after the deaths and while disqualified from the road.