A Bradford man campaigning for tougher court action against dangerous drivers has condemned the two-year jail sentence given to a trucker who caused the deaths of two men.

Saghir Iqbal lost three members of his family in a horrific M1 smash in December 2005.

He was angry and dismayed when the lorry driver responsible, Rex Bennett Hoyte, was jailed for only three years.

Mr Iqbal, 36, a car dealer, of Southmere Grove, Great Horton, collected thousands of signatures for a petition supporting his call for a tougher sentence for Hoyte.

He was backed by Bradford West MP Marsha Singh but the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, refused to overturn the sentence.

Now Mr Iqbal says the jail sentence meted out at Leeds Crown Court earlier this week to trucker David Harding for causing two deaths by dangerous driving is another travesty of justice.

He said: "It is still one year per life. Nothing has changed. Another two members of the community wiped out by a truck driver.

"Our loved ones will never come back, we understand that, but these truck drivers should be made an example of."

Bennett Hoyte caused the deaths by dangerous driving of Bradford family Islam Akram, 28, his wife Shamim Akhtar, 28, and his sister Tasleem Akhtar, 27.

All three died instantly when their car was crushed by his 28-tonne lorry after he fell asleep at the wheel near Watford Gap.

Mr Iqbal, Mr Akram's brother, said the sentence should have been ten to 14 years.

And he said Harding's sentence showed nothing had changed.

Trainee police officer Andrew Jones, 26, of Guiseley, and Robert Jones, 49, a customer service engineer, of Crossflatts, Bingley, died instantly in a nine-vehicle pile-up on the M62 near Tingley on August 29 last year.

The court heard it was a mystery why Harding, 36, of Derbyshire, failed to see queuing traffic near junction 29.

He admitted causing the deaths by dangerous driving of both men, who were not related.

After the hearing their angry families condemned the sentence.

Andrew Jones's mother Christine said: "Our sentence is life. His sentence will get easier and ours will get harder."

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