Overview
- Owen Maughan, 27, and his father Patrick, 54, were sentenced Wednesday at Maidstone Crown Court to 12 and 18 years for manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm.
- Prosecutors said the pair chased a family pickup along the A2 after a roadside clash, and Owen then drove into the wrong lane at about 60mph on a blind bend, tipping the vehicle into multiple rolls.
- Four-year-old Peter Maughan was thrown from the truck and died at the scene, while his father, driver Lovell Mahon, suffered a fractured skull and paralysis that doctors say will prevent him from walking again.
- Jurors heard the men had been drinking heavily in Rochester earlier that day and that they fled after the crash, stopping so Patrick could remove their truck’s registration plate before police arrested them.
- Both men were cleared of murder in a trial last month, with Owen pleading guilty to manslaughter and a jury convicting Patrick, and the judge cited victim statements that described a family now surviving rather than living.