Readers will have their own views about the four-year prison sentence imposed on a Bradford driver who knocked down and killed young mother Leanne Egan on a pedestrian crossing in front of her partner and 13-month-old daughter.

Mohammed Tayyub Khan was driving recklessly and dangerously in his father's high performance car. He should have been travelling within the 30mph speed limit on Manningham Lane but instead was moving at between 55 and 60mph when he overtook a slower-moving vehicle on the approach to the crossing.

This was a man whose father's insurance company had refused to continue to cover him because they saw him as too great a risk. He had previously received bans under the "totting up" provisions and for driving while disqualified. He was clearly considered not to be a safe pair of hands to have behind a wheel.

Now Judge Stephen Gullick has ensured that the people of Bradford have nothing to fear from Khan for a while. And he has issued a warning to other drivers by declaring that if they travel at speed and cause a death as a result they will go to prison for a significant time.

Is four years significant enough? Miss Egan's family and the police have said they are satisfied with the sentence, and it is good that it is in years rather than months. But Khan, who needs to reflect long and hard on his behaviour during his time in prison, should think himself fortunate it is not steeper.