Horror footage shows BMW speeding through Coventry before boy, 12, hit and killed

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Aleksanders Dolars - also known as Dolars Aleksanders - ploughed into Keaton Slater in Coventry as he walked home from school

Shocking footage shows the moment a reckless BMW driver reached 70mph in a 30mph zone moments before he killed a 12-year-old boy in a hit-and-run.

Keaton Slater was walking home from school on June 14, 2024, when Aleksanders Dolars, also known as Dolars Aleksanders, hit him on Radford Road in Coventry. Dolars sped off and abandoned the BMW around six miles away.

Paramedics were called, but Keaton’s injuries were fatal. Dolars fled to Latvia, where police tracked him down before he was extradited to the UK. He was arrested at Gatwick Airport in August and later admitted causing death by dangerous driving.

He was jailed for nine years and four months and banned from driving for more than 16 years at Warwick Crown Court on Friday.

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Keaton’s mum Louise has spoken out about sitting outside the suspect’s home to urge his family to hand him in. She was given the details of Aleksanders Dolars after the horrific ordeal. She was told by a neighbour that the family, originally from Latvia, had packed and left just a day or two earlier.

She told the BBC: "All I was going to say was, 'how can you live with yourselves’? I'd tell them to hold their hands up. Do the right thing. Tell him to face what he's done."

Louise later was advised that Dolars was in Lativa as police tracked him through phone records. She created a petition calling for his petition. However there was no extradition treaty in place between the UK and the EU after Brexit causing a lengthy legal battle taking two years.

After the case, Keaton's family paid moving tributes to their 'beautiful boy'. His mum Louise said: "Keaton was our world. He was funny, caring, loving and full of life. He had the biggest smile and a heart full of kindness. He brought happiness into our home simply by being himself.

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