A BUS driver has pleaded guilty over the death of a nine-year-old girl in a horror crash after smashing into her while high on drugs.
Martin Asolo-Agogua had been up all night at a social event when he struck Ada Bicakci with the double decker in Bexleyheath, South East .
The youngster tragically couldn't be saved and died two days after the August 3 horror.
Her five-year-old brother was also taken to hospital following the crash.
Asolo-Agogua, 23, today admitted causing death by dangerous and driving whilst unfit through (cannabis).
Judge Ben Gumpert KC warned the driver he faces during the hearing at Woolwich Crown .
He said: “Looking at the sentencing guidelines, whether this is in the highest or middle level of culpability, even if that decision went in favour of the defendant the starting point would be a sentence of six years in prison.
“And there are, it seems to me, considerable aggravating features because he was driving a bus, under the influence of , and that he hadn’t slept the night before having been, as I understand it, at a social event.”;
A previous hearing was told Asolo-Agogua had 5.9 micrograms of THC – a psychoactive chemical found in cannabis – in his blood.
Asolo-Agogua was bailed ahead of sentencing in June at the same court.
Ada, a Turkish and British national, was a “keen”; gymnast and swimmer, accordint to tributes.
AGoFundMepage was launched to provide support to those who helped the tragic youngster.
A statement on behalf of the Bacakci family revealed Ada’s organs were donated to help six other children following the tragedy.
It read: “We have been hit and shattered into pieces, one became six, living in new places.
“Thanks are not enough to show our gratitude. We'll honour Ada with acts of magnitude.
“The funds will support those who helped us through, from emergency services to our hospital too. We lost count of who soaked us in love.”
