Sick fraudsters have been branded ‘scum’ for seeking to cash in on the death of 17-year-old Olivia Alkir, who was killed in car crash caused by two boy racers.
A fake crowdfunding page was set up less than 24 hours after Thomas Quick, 18, and a 17-year-old male – who cannot be named – were jailed for five years each.
Police are now investigating the potential fraud after the mother of popular deputy head girl Olivia – Joanna – warned people not to donate to the bogus page.
Incorrectly titled ‘Memoriable Fund’, it has now been taken down.
Councillor Huw Hilditch-Roberts of Ruthin, Wales – related to one of the four others injured in the crash down the B5105 last June – called the page ‘sickening’.
Pictured: Olivia Alkir, who was killed in the car crash on the B5105 between Efenechtyd and Ruthin after desperately pleading with her driver to slow down
He thundered: ‘I couldn’t believe it when I saw Olivia’s mum had shared a fake fundraising page which had a target of £5,000 telling people not to donate.
‘It was uploaded just hours after the two teenagers were sentenced, so some serious lowlife had obviously read the coverage and tried to pull a fast one.
‘I think it is sickening that someone would stoop so low as to aim to profie from a totally horrific situation for everyone involved.’
The councillor added: ‘It is horrendous. Some people are absolute scum.’
Olivia was tragically killed last year after Quick and the 17-year-old male – who had just passed his driving test – embarked upon a high-speed race.
Pictured: Thomas Quick arriving at Mold Crown Court for sentencing after goading his friend, a 17-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons, to race him at speeds of up to 90mph
Pictured: The point of collision on the B5105, where tributes to Olivia were left. Olivia’s parents called their daughter ‘beautiful’ and said they were ‘waiting to die’
Riding as a passenger in the 17-year-old’s Ford Fiesta, her screams to slow down were ignored as the vehicle reached speeds of up to 90mph.
The Fiesta collided head-on into an oncoming Mercedes at around 80mph, killing Olivia instantly and leaving four others seriously injured.
Quick and the 17-year-old boy racer were sentenced to five years each last week after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Judge Parry condemned the incident as ‘one of the worst examples of dangerous driving one could imagine’ and excoriated the pair for blighting the lives of Olivia’s family, arguing: ‘You two were the cause of those dreadful consequences.
‘That was purely down to your arrogance, selfishness and egotistical conduct.’
The judge said to the pair: ‘You have had the benefit of excellent upbringings. This isn’t a case involving vulnerable, poorly-educated, disadvantaged young people.’
Judge Parry condemned the incident as ‘one of the worst examples of dangerous driving one could imagine’ and excoriated the pair (pictured, Quick) for blighting the lives of Olivia’s family, arguing: ‘You two were the cause of those dreadful consequences. That was purely down to your arrogance, selfishness and egotistical conduct’
Pictured: Tributes at the scene of a fatal car accident on the B5105, where 17-year-old Olivia had begged the Ford driver to slow down before he collided into a Mercedes at 80mph
He also pledged to write to the Government, and called for banning newly-qualified drivers from carrying more than one passenger for a year.
Judge Parry said he hoped this case deter ‘young impressionable people, often influenced by peer pressure’ from entering into dangerous behaviour.
In a heart-rending impact statement, Olivia’s mother Joanna called her daughter a ‘beautiful only child’ to whom she and her husband Mesut were devoted.
Revealing that they are now ‘waiting to die’, she said: ‘Our world was shattered when she was needlessly killed. We were the proudest parents on earth.’
Her family said Olivia’s death was ‘a calamity caused by the reckless and criminal actions of two young men who played Russian roulette with’ lives.
Joanna added: ‘We wake to a living hell every day.
‘Olivia’s death and the life changing injuries inflicted on the other victims were a tragedy that should never have happened.’
North Wales Police was approached for comment.