A hit-and-run driver who killed a 30-year-old dental nurse and then tried to cover it up has been jailed for five years.

Jamie Filan, 26, killed Michelle Dever, 30, after hitting her in a Ford Fiesta on the A259 Brighton Road in Lancing.

After the accident, Filan fled the scene and dumped the car less than a mile away at Beach Green. He had no driving licence or insurance, Miss Dever, who worked at Shoreham Dental Centre, was hit by the car as she crossed the road to her home on the south side of Brighton Road, close to the Kia garage, on February 2 last year.

Filan, with his then heavily pregnant 29-year-old wife, Louise, concocted a plan to deceive the police by reporting the vehicle stolen in the hope the accident would be blamed on somebody else.

Chichester Crown Court was told yesterday that officers managed to establish their story was a pack of lies by using high-tech mobile phone tracking systems to pinpoint exactly where Jamie Filan had been during the time of the accident.

Miss Dever's family, who live in Surrey, shouted "Jamie, I hope you rot in hell" as Judge Anthony Thorpe sentenced him for perverting the course of justice, leaving the scene of an accident, driving without insurance and driving without a licence.

He also received jail terms during the same hearing after admitting burgling two hotels in London in 2005 and stealing passports, cheques and wallets.

The 26-year-old still faces sentencing for a charge of careless driving for the accident which killed Miss Dever.

Although he has admitted the charge Judge Thorpe said it should be changed to the more serious, causing death by dangerous driving. The court heard Filan had been speeding at "no less" than 51 mph on the 40 mph road when he hit Miss Dever.

Judge Thorpe said: "I find it inexplicable that driving at that speed does not attract a charge of death by dangerous driving and I would ask the CPS to look very seriously at reviewing their decision to pursue careless driving."

Speaking to The Argus after the hearing Mark Dever, 33, brother of Michelle said: "We'll be doing everything we can to persuade the authorities to go for dangerous driving.

"This sentence does not bring any closure for us, nothing can ever provide closure for losing Michelle."

Sergeant Paul Woods, of Brighton road policing department, pledged that Sussex Police would review the case.

Louise Filan received a one-year suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice and attempting to obtain goods by deception. She attempted to cash cheques worth more than £15,000 in Brighton, which her husband had stolen from hotels in London.

Louise Filan was working as a sales executive for The Argus and had use of the company car, the court was told. She no longer works for the company.

Jamie Filan took the car, without the consent of the company, and was driving from Brighton to Shoreham along the A259 when the accident happened.