A bus driver has admitted to hitting and killing a nine-year-old girl while high on cannabis in London.
Ada Bicakci and her five-year-old brother were hit on Watling Street, Bexleyheath in August last year.
Martin Asolo-Agogua, 23, who was behind the wheel of a double decker bus, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving and driving while unfit through drugs.
The siblings, who were with a family member at the time, were taken to hospital where Ada died two days later.
Ada, a Turkish and British national, was a ‘keen’ gymnast and swimmer.
A statement on behalf of the Bicakci family, shared on their GoFundMe page, explained that Ada’s organs were donated to help six other children.
It read: ‘We have been hit and shattered into pieces, one became six, living in new places.
‘Thanks are not enough to show our gratitude. We’ll honour Ada with acts of magnitude.
‘The funds will support those who helped us through, from emergency services to our hospital too. We lost count of who soaked us in love.’
Judge Ben Gumpert KC warned Asolo-Agogua he faces prison time, saying: ‘You have pleaded guilty to a very serious offence which has resulted in a young child losing her life.
‘The circumstances of this offence are such that in my view it is inevitable that you will be sent immediately to prison.’
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