A HEARTBROKEN woman has revealed her family's disgust at learning that the man who killed her stepfather in a hit-and-run crash has been jailed again for another dangerous driving offence.

David Coates, 33, died after he was hit by a high-powered car driven by Chaudhury Hussain on December 19, 1997, on Halifax Road, Odsal, Bradford. Hussain, who fled the scene, was jailed in February 1999, for four and a half years, for causing death by dangerous driving.

This week, 40-year-old Hussain, of Dewsbury Road, Elland, was jailed for 15 months for a trio of driving offences he committed last December when he led police on a chase in West Bowling. He admitted charges of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Judge Jonathan Rose said Hussain's conviction for causing Mr Coates' death had not impacted on him "one jot" and had made his latest offence "wicked".

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Siobhan Douglas, one of Mr Coates' four stepchildren, said: "He does not learn. He has no remorse for anything he has done to anybody.

"It is sickening. I cannot even put it into words.

"He took a 33-year-old man from a family and ran off, five days before Christmas.

"And he still has not learned a lesson."

She added: "I know accidents happen and people get run over because pedestrians are not taking any notice of the road. But to be speeding, you have to know that you are putting someone's life at risk.

"By being involved in a high-speed chase, he is putting other lives at risk."

Mr Coates left behind his fiancee Susan Douglas, daughter Jade Coates, now 23, and stepchildren Lee, 40, Chantelle, 36, Kirsty, 32, and Siobhan, 28.

Siobhan, of Buttershaw, Bradford, said: "We are all feeling it the same. We are just disgusted.

"It has just left us all speechless. And to see him smiling is like a kick in the teeth.

"It is just grieving all over again. It brings it all back up again."

Siobhan, who was aged ten at the time of her stepdad's death, added: "I don't hate anyone. But him, I actually hate him with all my heart.

"My mum is a recluse. She is haunted by the court case that went on. Even then, at that point, he just did not care what he had done.

"He just does not care what he is doing to anybody anywhere. He just thinks he is invincible."

Siobhan said she backed the Telegraph & Argus Stop The Danger Drivers campaign, especially our call for stronger sentences for anyone convicted of dangerous driving.

"I totally agree with stronger sentences," said Siobhan. "I have been saying for the past couple of years that it should be classed as murder - a car is a deadly weapon.

"I definitely back that and the campaign."

She added: "If the law was changed and they were getting bigger sentences for crimes like causing death by dangerous driving, maybe it would stop them."