A man who killed a 13-year-old schoolgirl while fleeing from police has been jailed for 11 years after admitting strangling his pregnant girlfriend before holding her head in a bath full of water.

The woman, 20 and three months pregnant, was so badly hurt in the attack a trainer print was left on her belly.

She ran out naked into the street and her ex-partner Devon Newell went on the run from police after the incident in Viking Way, Eastbourne.

Despite being in hospital for 13 days her baby survived.

But on the night of January 6 this year  Newell was in a vehicle in New Cross, London, when Metropolitan Police in a second vehicle attempted to pursue him.

As the chase took hold he smashed into a car which had a family in it.

Schoolgirl Wiktoria Was, a talented dancer, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, died. Newell, 33, of Peckham, London, admitted causing death by dangerous driving on February 18 this year.

Now he has been sentenced for grevious bodily harm and assault in relation to the attack on his girlfriend in Eastbourne.

The 20 year-old-victim who was three months pregnant with Newell's baby was in the bath when Newell launched a frenzied attack.

Hove Crown Court was told a neighbour took the victim into their house and called the police but Newell had fled the scene prior to police arrival.

The victim sustained a fractured cheekbone and severe bruising to her upper body and spent a total of 13 days in hospital.

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Lewis, of Sussex Police, said: "This was a vicious, sustained attack on a young pregnant woman who was completely defenceless in the bath. Devon Newell used so much force on the victim that he fractured her eye socket and left a clear trainer print on her stomach.

"The victim required surgery on her cheekbone and is now partially sighted in her left eye. The fact that the victim fled into the street completely naked shows that she was in genuine fear for her life. I am amazed that the unborn baby was not harmed.”

In a victim impact statement read in court Wictoria's mother Anna Uroda said: "The river of tears has not stopped flowing since 6 January when Wictoria was taken from us.

"My insides have been ripped out, the pain is unbearable, a fire burning internally 24 hours a day, all emotions and purpose of life have become a mystery.”