Checks on the Police National Computer identified Jankovic as the registered keeper of the vehicle.
Officers were also able to place Jankovic’s phone at both the scene of the collision and the location where the car was left.
The 23-year-old, of Hakewill Way, Colchester, was arrested in the early hours of the morning the following day in Sudbury.
He initially denied causing death by dangerous driving.
But this week he was jailed for four years and two months and banned from driving for seven years after admitting the charge.
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