Sentencing of killer taxi driver underway in Cape High Court

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Sentencing is underway in the Western Cape High Court of taxi driver Jacob Humphreys, who has been convicted of killing 10 children by ignoring safety signals at a rail crossing prior to a fatal accident.

Humphreys was taking the children to school on August 25 last year when he stopped at the Buttskop level crossing in Blackheath.

He overtook a row of cars, ignored safety signals and proceeded over the tracks.

A train hit the taxi and 10 of the children were killed. Four children were seriously injured.