A teenage drink-driver was today warned that he faces custody after admitting killing two musicians in a crash on Tyneside.

Joseph Scurfield, 46, and Keith Morris, 52, were killed when they were hit by a BMW car that mounted the pavement in Westgate Road, Newcastle, in June.

The 17-year-old admitted causing the deaths by dangerous driving, driving without insurance and drink-driving, at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday.

He pleaded not guilty to failing to stop and failing to report an accident.

Mr Morris, from Elswick, was well known in local jazz circles as a musician and composer and Mr Scurfield, also of Elswick, was a member of the popular comedy and music group the Old Rope String Band.

Mr Morris died at the scene while his friend died at Newcastle General Hospital.

The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sat with his parents in front of the dock and spoke only to enter his pleas.

Judge Richard Lowden ordered a pre-sentence report and adjourned sentence until 6 October.

But he said: "Unfortunately these are very serious offences which you have pleaded guilty to, and it seems to me that a custodial sentence is inevitable, but that will be a matter for the sentencing judge."