The identity of a teenager who mowed down and killed a health worker as she walked home from work has been made public after a Crown Court appeal by the Leicester Mercury.

Seventeen-year-old Omar Khalifia admitted causing the death of Suzanne Carr in Leicester in July in a four-minute hearing, where sentencing was adjourned for probation reports.

But a ban on naming him had been imposed by magistrates at an earlier hearing and the Mercury lodged an appeal.

Judge Brian Appleby QC allowed the application and said: “I don’t see why the public should not know what he did on this occasion and I will lift the reporting restriction.”

But he ordered the defendant’s home address should not be reported.

The court heard how Khalifia, who has never passed a driving test, was subject to an 18-month driving ban at the time of the accident, for a previous dangerous driving conviction.

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