REDWOOD CITY — A San Mateo man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fleeing police in a car chase that began in Daly City and ended in a wreck that killed an 18-year-old woman he met earlier that day.

Adrian Dewitt Marcel Watson, now 21, was sentenced by San Mateo County Judge Mark McCannon at a hearing on Monday, where the judge called the case “one of the worst” he’s handled.

“Do I think 10 years is enough? Absolutely not,” McCannon said. “You knew what you were doing was wrong … It’s the thrill of the drive, the thrill of running from the police.”

“You took their daughter, their cousin, their sister,” McCannon added. “I just don’t like (the sentence), and that’s not a reason for me not to approve it.”

Watson was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $52,530 in restitution to the

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