Two men who killed a mother and her four-year-old daughter as they raced their high-performance cars along a Leeds city centre road have been jailed.

Justyna Hulboj, 27, and her daughter Lena Czepczor were killed when they were hit by an Audi TT RS as they walked to the girl's nursery on the A61 Scott Hall Road on 16 January 2023.

At Leeds Crown Court on Monday, Hardeep Bhachu, 29, was jailed for 12 years and Jasskamal Riyat, 37, for 16 years.

Sentencing the men, Judge Singh said the road was "not a race track" and told them the deaths had consequences that were "immeasurable", with an "immense" impact on those left behind.

Bhachu, of Grant Row in Adel, had earlier admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving , while Riyat, of Buckstone Avenue in Moortown, was convicted by a jury after denying he had been racing him.

The court heard the pair, who did not previously know each other, accelerated away from traffic lights on Scott Hall Road shortly before the crash.

Prosecutors said Riyat's…