Man admits causing boy's death on Manchester Road, Bradford

Malakye Hall was killed late on August 11, 2020, when he was hit by a Toyota Auris driven by Mohsin Hussain, 32, of Carlisle Terrace, Manningham, Bradford. 

Today, Hussain pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court on the day he was to stand trial  for causing the little boy’s death by dangerous driving. 

Malakye Hall (Image: Family)

The Crown did not proceed with a second charge of causing Malakye’s death by driving without insurance. 

Prosecutor Abigail Langford said footage from the night in question would be played during the opening of the case when Hussain is sentenced on the afternoon of November 23. 

Judge Jonathan Rose enlarged his bail until that date but told him: “Be under no illusions, it will be a very substantial sentence of imprisonment for the taking of the life of this child.” 

Hussain was banned from driving from today. 

His barrister, Oliver Jarvis, told the court that Hussain had paid for the little boy’s funeral and attended his wake. 

Tributes on St Stephen's Road (Image: Newsquest)

He requested a report from the probation service, stating that Hussain was very lightly convicted and the father of three children. He was under no illusions and knew he would receive a lengthy custodial sentence. 

Judge Rose enlarged his bail until the date of sentence. 

He said arrangements must be made for the defendant’s relatives and members of Malakye’s family to be present in court for the ninety-minute hearing. 

Malakye was killed at just after 10pm when he was struck by Hussain’s Toyota Auris on Manchester Road. 

He had left his mother’s address and was trying to cross the carriageway towards St Stephen's Road. 

Malakye was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary but died later that night from extensive head injuries. 

A tribute left to Malakye (Image: Newsquest)

In August 2021, his mother Wendy Hall was jailed for neglecting him. 

Bradford Crown Court was told at that hearing that Malakye got out of a locked address in Lindley Road, Little Horton, Bradford, on the night he was fatally injured. 

Hall had left him alone at the address which had no electricity or gas. 

She left her phone for him to play on while she was away but it appeared that he got out of the house shortly after she left, the court was told. 

The damaged phone was found in the boy’s possession and enquiries led the police to the house which was in darkness with the door open. 

Miss Langford said that when Hall was interviewed the next day she admitted leaving Malakye at home on his own. 

The court heard that she had moved from the Lindley Road address to live with her sister but had gone back there to pick up some belongings intending to take her son to her partner’s home but the boy changed his mind about going. 

She said she did not think Malakye could use the bolt on the back door, Miss Langford said. 

Hall pleaded guilty to the neglect charge and was jailed for three years. 

Her solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said in mitigation that she had left the Lindley Road address two or three weeks before the death of her son. 

He said that Hall, who had no previous convictions, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had suffered from depression and anxiety since her teens. 

He submitted that her culpability could be reduced because of her mental disorder. 

“The police found your mobile phone in Malakye’s clothing and you were to say you had given it to him so he could play on it while he was alone in that house which had no electricity or no gas,” the judge, Recorder Tahir Khan KC, told Hall. 

“I’ve no reason to doubt you locked the door to stop him getting out but as we know he did with those tragic consequences,” he continued. 

“This is Category One harm in my judgement. The deliberate act of leaving Malakye alone and vulnerable resulted in his death.”