The 22-year-old died after her Nissan Juke was struck head-on by a high-powered Audi that was travelling at around 100mph on Manston Lane in Cross Gates in June 2022. The Audi driver, Jonathon Hopkinson, was jailed for eight years at Leeds Crown Court today for causing her death by dangerous driving. He was over the drink-drive limit at the time.
Alice died in hospital two days later. During today’s hearing, statements were read out by Alice’s family. Her aunty, Deborah Horsfall described her niece as being “a strong independent young woman, beautiful both inside and out” who was “always smiling and always happy”.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. She said they even joked and used to call her Miss Daisy, because of the careful way she would drive. She told the court: “The shock of seeing Alice's bruised and battered body lying on a hospital bed will never leave me.
The trauma and pain over the next three days have a massive emotional impact on me, and the memory of her boyfriend refusing to leave her side, holding her hand. “Nobody had any words for how they were feeling. To have to make the decision to switch off the machine that was keeping her her alive and watch her take her last breath was devastating.
The senseless death of Alice has left a gaping hole.
