Student tragedy: Two behind bars.

(From Burnley Express)

TWO men who caused the death of a 20-year-old Burnley student by dangerous driving and seriously injured her boyfriend have both been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

Preston Crown Court was told that Stephen Carroll was in a stolen van and Anthony Geraghty a stolen Ford Focus and were driving at speed in tandem, bumper to bumper.

Edge Hill College history student Jackie Ryding was at a pelican crossing in Ormskirk with her film studies student Danny McNamara (21), waiting for a friend, when the van mounted the pavement and killed Jackie, of Prairie Crescent, and seriously injured Danny, from Plymouth.

Judge Jonathan …