Hit and run driver caused ‘appalling tragedy’

A hit and run driver who left a promising law student paralysed after ploughing into him on a zebra crossing has been jailed for 18 months. Mohammed Talukdar, 21, careered into Joseph Azizeh, 22, and then sped off in his BMW on Burdett Road, Mile End, east London, on 14 July last year. Mr Azizeh suffered two fractures to the skull, a bleed on the brain, air in his spinal column and bruising both lungs. The victim – who came…