10:08pm Tuesday 10th June 2008
By Ben Parsons
A teenager who killed his friend when he crashed a stolen Mini was caught joyriding again days later.
Ben King, 17, from Shoreham, will be sentenced next month for causing the death of passenger Rui Rica on the M23 last year.
He and the other passengers ran away from the crash scene to try to escape police.
Outside Lewes Crown Court yesterday Mr Rica's family said they had no sympathy for King.
Mr Rica, from Worthing, was in a stolen BMW Mini which hit the central reservation, spun across three lanes and came to rest on the hard shoulder of the motorway between Pease Pottage and Crawley at 5am on October 9 last year.
King, who was driving, had been drinking beer he had earlier stolen from the BP garage in Mill Road, Brighton.
A few days after the crash King was arrested in Worthing in another stolen car.
King, of Mansell Road, Shoreham, has admitted causing death by careless driving through drink or drugs, aggravated vehicle taking, theft, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and failing to provide a breath specimen to police.
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