Police have released a custody image of Martin Asolo-Agogua after he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and driving whilst unfit through drugs (cannabis) on Tuesday, April 22.
The 23-year-old from Nunhead had been up all night at a social event when he crashed the bus into Ada and her five-year-old brother on Watling Street on the morning of August 3 last year, a court heard.
Her family said that after her death her organs were donated to help six other children.
More than £14,000 was raised in honour of Ada, with her family saying: “We have been hit and shattered into pieces, one became six, living in new places.
“Thanks are not enough to show our gratitude. We’ll honour Ada with acts of magnitude.
“The funds will support those who helped us through, from emergency services to our hospital too. We lost count of who soaked us in love.”
Judge Ben Gumpert KC said: “Looking at the sentencing guidelines, whether this is in the highest or middle level of culpability, even if that decision went in favour of the defendant the starting point would be a sentence of six years in prison.
“And there are, it seems to me, considerable aggravating features because he was driving a bus, under the influence of cannabis, and that he hadn’t slept the night before having been, as I understand it, at a social event.”
The defendant was released on bail until sentencing.
Judge Gumpert said: “You have pleaded guilty to a very serious offence which has resulted in a young child losing her life.
“The circumstances of this offence are such that in my view it is inevitable that you will be sent immediately to prison.”
