Moment drug driver arms police bottle of beer after killing lady, 17, whereas on cocktail of cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy

This is the moment police confronted a dishevelled drink-and-drug-driver who was holding a bottle of beer just minutes after killing a 17-year-old girl in a horror crash.

Keilan Roberts lost control of his car while high on cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy and alcohol which killed his passenger Chloe Hayman in Fochriw, South Wales.

Roberts, then 21, had been at a nightclub with Chloe before and offered for her to get a lift home with his friends, with the intention of dropping her off in the morning.

However, he changed the plan on the way and asked his friends to drop him off where his Skoda Octavia was parked instead, which he then began to drive home.

But he crashed the vehicle in the early hours of July 24, 2022 – leaving Chloe with fatal chest injuries. She died at the scene.

Now, newly-released police bodycam footage filmed after the crash shows an officer speaking to Roberts, who appears dazed while holding a bottle of Peroni beer.

The officer is seen walking over to Roberts at the side of the road and is heard saying: ‘I’m just going to speak with the man who is thought to be the driver.’

Roberts confirms he was driving the vehicle and tells the officer his name, spelling out the letters before being told to put the beer bottle he is holding on the floor.

The footage, featuring in new series ‘999: What Happened Next’ on Channel 4 at 10pm tonight, then shows Roberts being taken into a police car to be breathalysed.

He has been seen by a witness drinking after the collision – potentially causing police a problem in proving how drunk he might have been at the time of the crash. 

Roberts says: ‘I was driving home. I had four bottles of Peroni in my car and that happened. I will be honest with you. Soon as that happened, I drank it all at once.’

The officer then asks Roberts whether he has consumed any alcohol in the past 20 minutes, and Roberts replies: ‘No. In the last 20 minutes? Yes, yes.’

Police then wait a short period before carrying out the breathalyser test to avoid contaminating the sample.

Roberts says: ‘I know for a fact I’m going to fail this breathalyser, I’m going to go to the station and I’m going to fail that one as well, I know I am. Maybe I shouldn’t have drunk them. But I was not drink driving, that wasn’t the case.’

The officer then tells Roberts he has failed the test, adding that ‘there is a strong smell of intoxicants coming from you’.

Roberts later said in police interview that he did not know the exact number of drinks he had consumed that night.

He added that he drank two or three pints of light beer in the nightclub, as well as a double vodka and lemonade and some wine.

Roberts and Chloe had been at the nightclub, but her friends all left then her phone battery died and she was unable to get hold of anyone.

He asked her to leave with him because his friends were driving him home – and said she could get a lift with him back to his house, and then he would give her a lift home in the morning.

Roberts and Chloe got in the car with his friends, but he then asked them to drop him off at his car and said he would take her to his home before driving her back to her place the next day.

But when he got behind the wheel, he crashed.

Roberts later pleaded guilty to four counts of causing death by careless driving while under the influence, with each charge reflecting the substances he had taken.

He was initially jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for three years and nine months in June 2023.

But the Court of Appeal increased this to five years and three months in September that year following a challenge from the Attorney General’s Office.

Roberts was also banned by the judges from driving for an extended period of 12 years and seven-and-a-half months.

He had initially been banned from driving for ten years at the crown court sentencing.

However, he has recently been freed from prison on licence after completing the required portion of his sentence in jail. 

The court heard Roberts had arranged for a friend who was not on the night out to collect him at 4am and had left his car in Deri before heading to the club.

On the way home, Roberts asked his friend to stop at his car in order for him to get something from it.

After exiting the vehicle, Roberts got into the driver’s side of his vehicle and Chloe got into the front passenger seat. The car then drove off.

Judge David Wynn Morgan said: ‘This was to the consternation of your friends who immediately concluded that you were in no fit state to drive and who followed you at a careful distance.

‘You managed to negotiate your way in the dark and drizzle as far as the outskirts of Fochriw but as you descended into the village you lost control of your vehicle.’

The court heard the car, which would have failed an MOT due to the condition of its tyres, collided with railings on a cattle grid.

Roberts then began drinking bottles of alcohol, claiming this was to ‘take the edge off’ but the judge said it was to ‘frustrate’ police inquiries to ascertain how much he had consumed before the crash.

Since the crash, Chloe’s mother Danielle O’Halloran has urged people against driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

She said in a victim personal statement at the time of the court case that her daughter’s death had left her ‘utterly broken’.

Ms O’Halloran added: ‘I thought time was meant to heal but this isn’t the case when you lose a child. If anything, it hurts more and more each day.’

Chloe’s stepmother Alix Hayman described Chloe as a ‘fiercely loyal’ girl who ‘lived and loved life’, telling Roberts that he had ‘torn this family apart’.

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