A man who has admitted causing the deaths of three people in a crash will be sentenced in May.

Jason Brooker, 37, was charged with three counts of causing death by dangerous driving following the smash on the A259 Rye Road in Brookland last May.

Brooker, of Stanford Avenue, Great Barr, Birmingham, appeared before Canterbury Crown Court on Monday, where he admitted causing death by careless driving.

He was immediately banned from driving and will be sentenced on May 3.

The accident, at about 3.50pm on Sunday, May 10 last year, caused the death of a mother and her daughter as passengers in a car and a man riding a motorcycle.

The collision was directly between the bike and a black Renault Megane and the three victims all died at the scene.

The motorcyclist was Malcolm Batt, 55, a father-of-four of Dumbourne Lane, Smallhythe, Tenterden.

The car passengers were Gloria Roberts, 65, of Hall Lane, Wallsall Wood, Wallsall, West Midlands, and Dawn Roberts, of Stanford Avenue, Great Barr, Birmingham.

An inquest opened in Folkestone shortly after the crash heard that all three victims died from multiple injuries and three other people in the car, two men and a baby, survived with minor injuries.