A teenage girl accused of killing her best friend in a car accident has been ordered to pay £50 compensation to a mother who branded her a murderer.

Georgia Marney, 18, from New Addington smashed a car window and began brawling with 20-year-old Taryn Price, before kicking her mother Tracy in the head as she tried to separate them on October 5 last year.

Marney had been involved in a fatal car crash in Overbury Crescent several weeks earlier, in which her 17-year-old friend Mikaela Stevens died.

She has since been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on June 7.

Marney, from Queen Elizabeth Drive, was found guilty of assault and damaging Mrs Price’s car during a trial at Croydon Youth Court at the end of May.

The mother and daughter were visiting Taryn’s boyfriend Jason Stevens, who had lost his 17-year-old sister in a car accident in August, when the trio spotted Marney walking down Cudham Drive. She had been banned from the road pending her upcoming court case for causing death by dangerous driving.

The women decided to leave and told Jason to return to the house, but as Mrs Price was driving towards Marney she shouted at her out of the window of her car.

She told the court: “I said ‘What the hell are you doing here, you are not supposed to be here’.

“I did call her a murderer, which I should not have done. She was shouting rubbish at us, f-ing and blinding.”

The mother said as she was waiting at the end of Cudham Drive Marney walked towards the car, punching the window three times to make it shatter.

Her daughter Taryn jumped out of the car to protect Mrs Price, whom she feared Marney was going to punch, and began grappling with her in the street.

She also admitted calling the teenager a murderer as they fought and pulled each other’s hair, before Mrs Price stood on Marney’s hair so her daughter could escape.

As Taryn Price got up to collect her phone from the middle of the road, Marney kicked her mother in the face, breaking her glasses and leaving a cut above her eyebrow which required hospital treatment.

Marney denied kicking Tracey Price, claiming she was attacked by the pair, and said she did not know how the car window got smashed.

She was sentenced to a six month community order, comprising a requirement to visit an attendance centre for a total of 36 hours.

The centre requires attendants to take part in group sessions to examine their crime and its consequences, as well as providing advice on getting a job and developing new practical skills and interests.