A 28-year-old motorist has appeared in court over the death of a teaching assistant in a road accident.

Simon Snow is accused of causing the death of Jody Clulow by dangerous driving while unfit through drink on the A249 at Brielle Way, near Sheerness, on January 8.

Snow, 28, of High Street, Eastchurch, will return to Maidstone Crown Court on September 11, to enter a plea to the charge.

Ms Clulow, 23, of Oak Lane, Minster, near Sheerness, was a back-seat passenger in a Subaru Impreza, which was in collision with the fence of a lorry storage yard in the early hours. Another back-seat passenger, a 23-year-old woman from Queenborough, suffered multiple injuries.

Ms Clulow, whose father Brian runs Seacliff Caravan Park at Minster, had just applied to start teacher training.

She was a full-time teaching assistant at Richmond First School, Sheerness, and had also worked at Sheppey College.