Remember the movie ‘Taxi’ from 1998? It was written by Luc Besson and starred a white Peugeot 406 as a Marseille-based taxi, driven by an unwilling crime-fighting racer of sorts, named Daniel.

The pedestrian, who was in his 20s, was struck by a white Peugeot taxi in Kenilworth Road, near to Leamington Rugby Club, at around 2.45am today, Wednesday, April 24.

Witnesses in the taxi at the time said Ferguson had been driving at speeds of more than 100mph and had been showing off shortly before the accident on 2 May last year. Newcastle Crown Court was told ...