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Luke Martin McCormick (born 15 August 1983 in Coventry, West Midlands) is an English football goalkeeper. He played for Plymouth Argyle between 2003 and 2008, but his contract was cancelled by mutual consent in July 2008 after he was involved in a car crash which killed two children. He has since been sentenced to prison for seven years and four months, for causing death by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol.[1]

Career

McCormick started the 2003 04 season as a backup for Romain Larrieu, but when Larrieu sustained an injury to his cruciate knee ligaments, he soon proved himself a competent replacement. Upon winning a 2 0 game over Stockport County on 24 January 2004, McCormick set a new club record of seven consecutive clean sheets, leading him to be voted the most promising player of the 2003 04 season by Plymouth Argyle fans.

Larrieu regained his place as first choice keeper shortly into the 2004 05 season. In October 2004, the Plymouth Argyle manager, Bobby Williamson sent McCormick on loan to Boston United of League Two, so that he could continue playing first-team football.

Linked with a move away to Leicester with former Argyle manager Ian Holloway, McCormick put in a series of important and impressive displays in the final matches of the 2007 08 season.

Car crash and conviction

On 7 June 2008, McCormick was arrested by patrol units of the Central Motorway Police Group on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Returning from the wedding of former team-mate David Norris,[2] McCormick's Range Rover collided with a Toyota Previa at 5.45am between junctions 15 and 16 of the southbound M6 motorway, near to Keele Services in Staffordshire. The crash resulted in the death of Arron and Ben Peak, aged ten and eight, from the Partington area of Manchester.[3] Their father, Philip, the driver of the Previa, was taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire with fractures to the neck, back, ribs and swelling of the lungs; while a 49-year-old man and his two sons, aged eight and 15, were treated for minor injuries. The group was travelling from the Manchester area to Silverstone in Northamptonshire to watch the World Series by Renault motorsport event.[2]

The following day, McCormick was charged by Staffordshire Police with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol in his blood, and driving with no insurance. He appeared at Fenton Magistrates' Court on 9 June and was granted conditional bail until 16 June when he appeared at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.[4] At this hearing the charge of driving without insurance was dropped against McCormick and the case was adjourned until 8 September.[5]

On 2 July he was suspended by Plymouth Argyle,[6][7] and his contract was cancelled by mutual consent on 22 July.[8] At the hearing on 8 September, the case was then adjourned further to 6 October[9] where McCormick pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.[10] He was then sentenced to seven years and four months' imprisonment.[1]

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