A speeding driver who killed a great-grandmother as she was crossing a road has had his jail sentence increased by more than two years at the Court of Appeal.

Tasham Mahmood was jailed for four years for killing Carol Andrew as she crossed a road in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, in July 2021.

Mahmood, 34, who had thrown his dashcam into another vehicle after the collision, was sentenced in April after admitting causing death by dangerous driving.

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Image: Tasham Mahmood. Pic: West Yorkshire Police/ PA

On Thursday, the term was increased to six years and four months after a panel of three judges accepted the Solicitor General's case that the original term was "unduly lenient" as Mahmood's dangerous driving was "persistent and prolonged" and ca

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