Serving solider from Tottenham charged after teenage runners killed by car while jogging

Crash victim: Lucy Pygott
Patrick Grafton-Green15 February 2017
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A serving soldier from Tottenham has been charged over the deaths of two teenage girls killed by a car while jogging.

Stacey Burrows, 16, was on a training run with 17-year-old Lucy Pygott when they were hit by a black Ford Focus near an army garrison in Hampshire on November 8 last year.

Michael Casey, 24, of St Pauls Road, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, Hampshire Constabulary said.

The girls were members of Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club.

Relatives of Stacey said following her death that her motto in life was "work hard".

And the family of Lucy said she had been an "absolute joy to us" and they felt lucky to have had her as part of their family for 17 years.

Casey has been bailed to appear at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on March 14, a Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said.

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