Driver admits killing teen freed from Dubai jail

A driver has admitted killing a London teenager in a car crash shortly after the 19-year-old had been freed from a Dubai jail for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

Marwaan Mohamed Huseen, 20, was attempting to get away from pursuing Metropolitan Police officers when he crashed a BMW into a lorry, killing 19-year-old Marcus Fakana who was one of the vehicle's passengers.

A second passenger in the vehicle was also badly hurt in the crash, which happened in the early hours of 3 October last year in Tottenham, north London.

At Wood Green Crown Court on Friday, Huseen appeared by videolink from HMP Pentonville to plead guilty to causing the death of Fakana by dangerous driving.