PROSECUTORS hope to increase a jail sentence imposed on a 19-year-old drink driver who killed three people.
Aaron O'Reilly was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for causing death by dangerous driving. O'Reilly, from Whitefield, was two and a half times over the drink driving limit when he collided with a taxi, killing the driver Khalid Ejaz and passenger Stella Shaw from Prestwich. O'Reilly also killed his own passenger, step-brother Aaron Croft.
The Crown Prosecution Service now hopes that the file on the case sent to the Attorney General will be passed onto the Court of Appeal.
O'Reilly had drunk spirits before driving the Ford Sierra his step-father had bought for him to drive after passing his test.
He had never had a formal driving lesson and was seen by witnesses driving at 90mph in a 30mph zone in Bury Old Road, Prestwich.
The maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 10 years.
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