A DRIVER convicted of causing the death of a teenager, who was taking his girlfriend and her young son for an ice cream, has been jailed for 18 months

Sheriff Pamela Bowman at Kirkcaldy also banned Kevin Jones, 37, for five years and ordered him to resit the driving test.

Jones denied his dangerous driving was to blame for the accident which killed 18-year-old apprentice welder David Brady, claiming his car went into a skid and he blacked out trying to correct it.

But at the end of a four-day trial at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court last month a jury found him guilty.

Jones, of Dunmore House, Airth, who was self-employed in the music business at the time, was on his way to a Kirkcaldy nightclub when he overtook another car on a bend and ploughed into Mr Brady's car.

Defence agent George Pollock said yesterday that Jones acknowledged his responsibility for the crash which had had a marked affect on him, and a letter from his GP stated he now suffered from clinical depression.

Appealing to the sheriff, he said: ''There is of couse no prospect in this case of reversing the tragedy that occurred. Nothing will bring back Mr Brady and I would ask you not to add one tragedy to another.''

But after a brief adjournment Sheriff Bowman told Jones: ''A young man died and nothing can compensate for that. I do accept that you are sincerely remorseful about what happened, but the interests I have to consider are wide and affect more than simply this case.

''Your licence is not clean. Taking everything into account I have decided that there is no alternative in this matter other than a custodial sentence.''

Jones was convicted of causing the death of Mr Brady, of Kirkcaldy's Cleish Gardens, and injuring his 19-year-old girlfriend Deborah Campbell and her one-year-old son Kyle, by driving dangerously on the Kirkcaldy to Rosyth Road near Orrock Quarry on November 21.