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The driver of a £100,000 supercar has been jailed for six years for killing a woman and seriously injuring her sister in a horror smash in Hall Green.

Birmingham Crown Court was shown horrific CCTV images of the moment Saqib Hussain smashed a hired Audi R8 Spyder into a Ford Fiesta at more than two-and-half times the speed limit.

This is the footage of the smash which was shown in court

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Fiesta passenger Noreen Ryan, 49, died at the scene.

Her sister Mary, 60, suffered six fractured ribs, a punctured lung, multiple spine fractures and dislocated shoulder, but survived the crash.

The sisters were returning to their Kings Norton from a family birthday party in Solihull when the £600-per-day Audi tore apart their car at the junction of Reddings Lane and Shaftmoor Lane on August 26 last year.

The court heard Hussain had picked up the keys of the car of the hired car from a table at a family wedding and had “fantasised” about driving such a powerful car.

Investigators said he was driving at a speed of at least 76mph when he saw the Fiesta at the junction and started braking.

He had earlier been captured on cameras across the city hitting “unbelievable speeds” and was even seen overtaking a car that was already overtaking a parked car.

The computer engineer, of Alexander Road, Acocks Green, already had six points on his licence for two earlier speeding convictions in 30mph zones and was “showing off” according to the prosecution.

After the crash, Mary Ryan told police that the speed was “unbelievable” and the car was like “a rocket.”

Joanne Barker, prosecuting, said: “Mary Ryan was not at fault in any way for what happened that night.

"Had he [Hussain] been travelling at the speed limit the collision would not have occurred.”

After the crash Hussain climbed out of the wreckage and said to an injured Mary: “I’m sorry it’s not your fault, it’s mine.”

The 25-year-old and his own injured passenger then escaped from the scene with the help of the driver of a Mercedes car that had been following them.

Hussain's passenger Faizal Wahid, suffered a broken cheekbone, jaw and eye socket and has had metal plates and permanent paralysis of the left side of his face.

Hussain handed himself in to police three-and-a-half hours after the crash.

He admitted causing death by dangerous driving, two counts of causing injury by dangerous driving, leaving the scene of an accident and driving without insurance.

Robert Cowley, defending, said Hussain had shown genuine remorse for what he had done. Before the crash he said he would have been described as a “decent, hard-working, polite and respectable individual.”

Judge Peter Carr said: “You showed flagrant disregard for the rules of the road and were a danger to everybody on them.

“You have since said it was your fantasy to drive the car and that you were testing its capabilities, but it seems to me you were showing off.

“The words from the family do not even come close to adequately describing the pain and grief that they feel for the loss of Noreen.”

Hussain was also handed a six-year driving ban.