Drone suspect ‘killed lover in police chase’

  A driver crashed into a lamppost, killing his girlfriend in a 91mph police chase, after being suspected of flying a drone into the prison, a court heard. Craig Kearney, 27, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving after nursery nurse Acacia Smith, 25, was killed in the collision in Wandsworth Bridge Road, southwest London. Kearney was supported by family members when he appeared briefly at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today (thurs). Henry Fitch, prosecuting, said: ‘On 9 August last…