A YOUNG father from Whitchurch, Tavistock has admitted causing the death of his fiancée in a motorway crash which happened as they were driving home from a holiday in Egypt.

Dominic Evans is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel before the crash on the M5 on January 14 this year in which 22-year-old Kayleigh Gill suffered fatal injuries.

They were on their way home to Tavistock from Gatwick airport with their sons, aged four and two, when their car crashed near Cullompton on the M5. She died in Derriford Hospital four days later.

The car was seen veering across the motorway before it hit a lorry. None of the others in the car suffered serious injury.

Mr Evans, aged 21, admitted causing death by careless driving when he appeared at Exeter Crown Court. He denied the more serious charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Judge Timothy Rose adjourned that case for a trial next June but urged the prosecution to review the case and decide whether they would accept the lesser charge.

He said: ‘This case goes back to January and it might be thought to be in the interest of everybody that it is brought to a relatively speedy conclusion.

‘In the light of all the considerations, the sentencing powers for the lesser offence are more than adequate.’

Peter Coombe, defending, said the Crown Prosecution Service’s own guidelines on cases concerning the death of loved ones in road accidents suggested they should not continue with the dangerous driving charge.

He said: ’I am surprised the prosecution have reached the decision, given that they had been in a relationship since they were 15, were engaged to be married and had two children together.’

He said Mr Evans and Kayleigh, a former Tavistock College student, had been sharing the driving and this was not a case of deliberately driving while suffering from sleep deprivation.

Richard Crabb, prosecuting, said the current decision of the CPS was to proceed with a trial for causing death by dangerous driving but the case would be reviewed.

The judge released Mr Evans on bail and imposed an interim driving ban. He set a provisional trial date of June 23 next year.