A MAN who crashed his car into a tree during a police chase, killing his passenger, has admitted causing the teenager's death.
Andrew Moore, aged 40, of Norfolk Park Avenue, Norfolk Park, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at Sheffield Crown Court and will be sentenced next week.
His 18-year-old passenger Adam Thorpe, a former Campsmount School pupil, who had recently moved from Askern to Sheffield, died in the smash after Moore offered him a lift in a stolen car.
Friends are convinced that when he accepted the lift he would not have known the car was stolen.
The car was chased by police through Doncaster before running out of control on Leger Way and smashing into a tree near the town's race course.
Moore, who is also known as Andrew Langham, was originally charged with manslaughter and denied the offence. He pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of causing death by dangerous driving and the Crown Prosecution Service accepted his plea.
Moore is also charged with breaching a sex offenders' prevention order imposed at Sheffield Magistrates' Court in 2001, which he denies.
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