A Shropshire teenager was today found guilty of causing the death of her 17-year-old college friend by dangerous driving.

Nineteen-year-old Kirsty Williams, of Telford, who burst into tears as the verdict was read out, was told by Judge Simon Tonking that custody was inevitable.

The jury at Shrewsbury Crown Court took just over an hour to return a guilty verdict on the charge of causing the death of Jonathan Humphreys, of Baschurch, by dangerous driving.

Williams, of Baldwin Webb Avenue, Donnington, had denied the charge.

Sentencing was adjourned to a date to be fixed and Williams was released on unconditional bail. She was given an interim driving ban.

Yesterday Williams told the court she could not remember anything about the day she crashed her car in Huffley Lane, near Bomere Heath, on January 30 last year.

She said: “All I remember is I had just come out of hospital and I was in a bodycast and I was in a wheelchair.”

The court had previously heard that Williams had bought the Vauxhall Corsa from a local garage a couple of days before the accident.

On the day of the accident, she took four friends from Walford College into Shrewsbury to McDonald’s for lunch. It was on the return journey towards Bomere Heath that the accident took place.

The prosecution alleged the accident was caused by the vehicle speed into the bend, the steering, the under-inflation of the tyres or a combination of all three.