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By HARRIE KEAN and LARA OLSZOWSKA FOR MAILONLINE Published: 15:26 BST, 12 April 2025 | Updated: 15:28 BST, 12 April 2025
A society party lover has been quietly released from prison after serving just 16 months for a drunken hit-and-run that left three young men seriously injured.Chloe Thynne, 39, who has family links to the aristocracy, left teenager William Pike with permanent disabilities after ramming her Audi Q5 into his Nissan Micra just after leaving a pub.Two of William’s friends who were passengers in the car were also hospitalised with severe injuries.A court heard Thynne had just left The Potting Shed pub in Crudwell, Wiltshire on 15 October 2021 when she veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit the boys head-on on the A429 at around 9pm.Chloe – who had previous convictions for driving offences, and had no insurance – fled the scene and was later located at her house in Kemble, Gloucestershire, but initially denied being the driver.Thynne eventually pleaded guilty to three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of a collision, and driving without insurance and was sentenced to four years and four months in prison at Swindon Crown Court on September 5 2023.But she was released early on December 4 2024 and is now living at home under curfew.Mr Pike, who was 18 at the time of the crash, remained in a critical condition for 10 days after suffering a brain injury and complex orthopaedic injuries from he collision. Chloe Thynne, 39, (pictured here on holiday) has been quietly released from prison after serving just 16 months for a drunken hit-and-run that left three young men seriously injured The crash left teenager William Pike (pictured in hospital) with permanent disabilities after Thynne rammed her Audi Q5 into his Nissan Micra just after leaving a pubHe hit out at her early release while he is left with permanent injuries.He told MailOnline: ‘Thynne’s selfishness and dishonesty nearly cost me my life, at such a young age I am now left with permanent visual and physical disabilities.His mother Rebecca Pike added: ‘Knowing that she left Will fighting for his life is something I will never come to terms with. ‘To then learn she was released early having only served a fraction of her sentence is a bitter pill to swallow.’It’s shocking,’ says one local. ‘I think it’s very unfair and very sad.’Locals in Crudwell were also ‘saddened’ by the news of Thynne’s early release. A barmaid at the Potting Shed, the pub she visited before the crash, told MailOnline: ‘She’s barred, she probably wouldn’t show her face in here.’I used to serve Chloe all the time in here.’Following her release Chloe shared a photo on Facebook of her holding a glass of champagne and wearing a flowing red dress while joined by two pals at a black tie event. Chloe smoking a cigarette sat on the bonnet of an Audi believed to be the one car involved in the crash William Pike pictured before the crash that left him permanently injured Other images shared by Thynne show her enjoying lavish holidays Chloe pictured in a field during a shooting trip Thynne during a skiing holiday in a photo shared to social mediaOther pictures show her enjoying lavish holidays, shooting weekends and smoking a cigarette sat on the bonnet of an Audi believed to be the one car involved in the crash.Lisa Gunner, a serious injury lawyer at Thompsons Solicitors, who represented William following the crash, said: ‘Sentencing must continue to send a clear message that dangerous driving ruins lives. ‘Many of the families we represent take some comfort in knowing that serious consequences follow reckless actions.’William and his family have suffered immensely, and no one should have to go through the same.’The news comes after Labour implemented an early release prison scheme. In September 2024, 1,750 prisoners were let out of prison to alleviate overcrowding in the system – something Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he had ‘no choice’ but to do.
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Society party girl, 39, who smashed Audi into three young men in horror hit and run quietly released from prison after serving less than HALF her sentence
