Drink driver who killed rickshaw rider gets nearly ten years

A drink driver who killed a woman out celebrating her birthday when he careered into her rickshaw at almost twice the speed limit has been jailed for nearly ten years. Luis Balcazar Soto, 24, was doing up to 56mph in a 30mph zone when he hit Sophie Strickland’s pedicab in a bus lane in New Kent Road, Southwark. Ms Strickland, 31, of Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, who was in London with friends, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4.30am after suffering…