A drug addict who killed a child actor and his aunt when he ploughed into them in a stolen car has been jailed.

Joshua Dobby, 23, who had a £60-a-day heroin and crack cocaine habit, was sentenced to 12 years in prison today at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of 10-year-old Makayah McDermott and Rosie Cooper, 34.

Dobby, who smiled as he left the dock, has 53 previous convictions and was being pursued by police at the time of the horror crash in Lennard Road, Penge, on August 31 last year.

He was driving a stolen black Ford Focus without a licence and CCTV footage shown to the court saw him driving the wrong way down one-way streets.