A six year jail sentence handed to a "reckless" driver who killed three teenage boys has been condemned.

Amjid Rehman, 23, was jailed for the horrific crash 18 months ago which killed 14-year-olds Shabram Jabber and Shahkall Rehman, and 15-year-old Mohammed Azzem.

The youngsters were passengers in the car driven by Rehman, of Sefton Place, Keighley, when he lost control on a stretch of remote road in the town called "the Yorkshire humps."

Karmat Hussain, of North Street, Keighley, whose son Shabram Jabber died in the crash,condemned the jail sentence.

Mr Hussain, 40, the father of five other children, said: "It means he will serve just two years for each child - that is what it works out at.

"The law stinks - it's not tough enough. It should be changed so that higher sentences can be given."

Mr Hussain said his friends had expected Rehman to get about eight or nine years and he was shocked by the eventual sentence.

The maximum sentence possible for the offence is 14 years.

He also said Rehman, who was found guilty after a trial, had shown no remorse.

"He lives opposite me and never had the heart to come round and say sorry," he said. "At the moment I could strangle him for what he has put my family through.

"My son had everything to live for and this man has taken his life."

The court had heard Rehman, 23, was driving "as fast as he dared" when he lost control of his Suzuki Swift and smashed into a wall on Tarn Lane, Keighley, in June last year.

Rehman had been showing off to his teenage passengers, some of whom had been hanging out of the windows.

Before getting to Tarn Lane the car had been doing between 50 and 60mph, witnesses describing the driving as "a bit mad".

The court was told how Tarn Lane has a series of small humps in the road and it was negotiating one of these humps that Rehman lost control. The car was flung 20 metres through the air, hitting two trees before colliding with the wall killing the boys.

Rehman, a father-of-one, and two other passengers survived the crash but the three boys died.

Passing sentence, Judge James Barry told Bradford Crown Court that no sentence he imposed could offer solace to the families of the deceased who had been robbed of the chance of growing up.

"Your speed essentially killed those boys," Judge Barry told Rehman.

"In driving you were entrusted with the lives of those three youngsters as well as your own and in taking obvious risks, recklessly driving as fast as you dared over those hazardous humps you were risking multiple lives."

He sentenced Rehman to six years jail concurrent on each of three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

Mr Hussain said his friend Abdul Majid, of Cark Road, Keighley, the 60 -ear-old father of victim Mohammed Azeem, and his wife had still not recovered.

"He has not worked since - he had had a job for 20 years before this.

David McGonigal, mitigating, for Rehman, told the judge how Rehman had been left tormented by the accident and was suffering from nightmares and flashbacks.

Mr McGonigal added that as a result of the smash Rehman's wife had left him and he now has problems having contact with his young son.