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Connor Copse has been jailed for more than 12 years

An uninsured, unlicensed, off-road biker killed a grandfather-of-14 when he careered head-on into him going the wrong way round a traffic island following a high-speed police chase. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Connor Copse had been doing more than 75mph before he struck 68-year-old motorcyclist Kevin Peacock, described by his son as “the glue who held our family together”.

At the time the 25-year-old, of Aspley, was on bail for a catalogue of controlling behaviour against a former partner and mother of his child. Now he will spend the next 12 years and four months behind bars for his raft of offending.

Jailing him, Judge Steven Coupland said: “Although there are two different sets of offences, there is a common featur

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