Cyclist jailed over pedestrian death

A cyclist who knocked over and killed a 44-year-old woman in east London has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Charlie Alliston, then 18, was travelling at 18mph on a fixed-wheel track bike with no front brakes before he crashed into Kim Briggs in February last year.

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