These allegations were rejected by the jury.

So, how do you get a professional racing driver to take time out of their crazy schedule to drive with a four year-old?Just ask, apparently.

The session came about after Raef's dad, Lionel, met Vesti at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the summer.After finding out Raef was a Formula 1 fan, Vesti offered to go and see him in action, and the rest is history.It is not just Mercedes' reserve driver on whom the four year-old has made an impression.

His coach, Harry Darby, said he thinks the young boy has what it takes to go all the way."The lap times never lie, and he's producing some extremely quick lap times, to the point where I'm having to do some practising to make sure that he doesn't beat me," he said.

"He's our fastest bambino driver that we've ever had in the last five years."

The racing does not stop when Raef is away from the track. He has a racing simulator at home to practice on when he is not physically in a kart.The group are set to headline Latitude Festival in what will be their "sole UK performance" of the summer in July.

An off-duty police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of an earlier crash.PC Rosie Prior, 45, had stopped to help Ryan Welford, 41, from Knaresborough, and was standing on the verge of the A19 at Bagby in North Yorkshire, when they were hit by a lorry at 08:55 GMT on Saturday.

They died at the scene. A teenage boy who was a passenger in Mr Welford's car is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.A 65-year-old lorry driver from Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been released under investigation.