A MOTORIST who was over the drink-drive limit when his car smashed into a stone wall has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two passengers.

Sixteen-year-old Jade Turley and Paul Workman, 38, both died last December in an accident on an unclassified road in Cherington, near Tetbury.

On Tuesday, driver Sean Creed, of Hampton Fields, Minchinhampton, pleaded guilty at Gloucester Crown Court to causing the deaths and admitted to having 140milligrams of alcohol per 100mls of blood. The legal limit is 80mgs.

Creed, 28, was driving a red Subaru Impreza car in which both Jade, from Minchinhampton, and Mr Workman, from Brimscombe, were passengers.

Jade's sister Amber, 19, was also in the car and both she and Creed were badly injured and had to spend several weeks in hospital. Creed was still on crutches as he went into the dock to enter his pleas to the charges.

Defence barrister Ray Tully said there was no pre-sentence report on Creed and wondered whether the court would be assisted by medical and psychiatric reports on him.

He said if the judge felt medical evidence might make a significant difference to Creed's sentence he would like an adjournment, otherwise Creed was content to be sentenced today because he was anxious to know his fate.

Judge William Hart said although it was unlikely medical evidence would make a major difference to sentence he did think it would make 'more than a marginal difference.'

"I take the view that all that can be put before the court probably ought to be," he said.

Creed was bailed until October 14 while psychiatric and medical reports are collected.