Luke McCormick, the former English goalkeeper was born in Coventry during 1983. The origins of his profession bore some sort of peculiar familiarity to that of a Hollywood movie. Followed meticulously by Sky Sports news, McCormick started out his career during the 2003- 2004 season as a backup for Romain Larrieu. Stepping up towards his position, McCormick acquired 7 consecutive clean sheets and also proceeded to create a brand new club record. All the Plymouth Argyle fans additionally voted him one of the most promising gamer of the year. He ended up being consequently sent upon loan to Boston United with League Two in October 2004, by Bobby Williamson who was then a Plymouth Argyle manager.
He then moved to Leicester City F. C together with Ian Holloway, the former Plymouth Argyle Manager. His career graph went up steadily and also consistently after that and McCormick gave impressive performances during the final matches of 2007-2008 season.
The actual cloud settled on his career when in June 7th, 2008, Luke McCormick was busted for suspicion of leading to death by dangerous driving whilst he had been on his way back coming from a previous team mates wedding ceremony. The Central Motorway Police Group, that was responsible for arresting McCormick, reported McCormick’s Range Rover collided with a Toyota Previa resulting in the death of Aaron as well as Ben Peak of age groups ten and 8 respectively.
The driver in the car had been the children’s father who had been severely hurt and also has to be taken to the Hospital Of North Staffordshire. It was subsequently found that he had sustained multiple fractures on the neck, ribs as well as his back and his lungs were also swollen. The other three passengers in the Previa were treated with regard to minor injuries.
He had been charged along with two counts of death caused by hazardous driving, driving with alcohol in his blood as well as driving without having insurance coverage by the Staffordshire Police the next day. On June 9 he had been presented before the Fenton Magistrate Court and also ended up being granted conditional bail. On June 16 he showed up before the Stroke-on-Trent Crown Court in which the charges on driving without an insurance were dropped against him. This particular case had been finally tried during October 2008 while he ended up being sentenced to seven years and 4 months in jail term.
Sky Sports news reported the fact that Luke McCormick pleaded guilty over the charges registered against him. The quantity of alcoholic beverages found in his bloodstream had been two times the actual permissible drink and drive limit. McCormick confessed to have fallen asleep over the controls that night time which led to the terrible accident.
The aftershocks of the incident began when on 22nd July, 2008 Plymouth Argyle cancelled Luke McCormick�s agreement of goalkeeper in just a month from the crash. It had been informed to all media people as well as Sky Sports News that this contract was terminated on mutual consent. He had also been terminated from Plymouth in the beginning of the month and ended up requested not to attend the pre-season training.
Conflict continues to encircle Luke McCormick even today. He created a storm when his jail team authorities sent a request to the South Devon League to ensure that he could perform in the Division Two side. In a review in Sky Sports news it was noted that a few South Devon League officials were displeased with this request because they believe that McCormick should be punished for his deed rather than be allowed to spend some time playing football.