A DRINK driver was today starting a 40-month prison sentence after causing a horror crash that left his pregnant girlfriend's father dead.

Michael Legg, 28, and Alan Haywood, 48, were thrown out of the VW Golf when it left the road on a bend, smashed into a bank and overturned.

Legg, who had been driving at nearly double the 40mph speed limit, was found to be one and a half times the legal drink/drive limit and to have no insurance.

He admitted a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Last night Mr Haywood's widow said she has been left with a life sentence while Legg would be able to serve his time behind bars and move on.