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[BNE] Hit-run killer jailed for four years
Here is an article from The Courier Mail this weekend. It is fully
relevant to the upcoming WoJ/RoS activities. We have to be careful about assuming the CM is a source of complete information. However, on the face of it we have: - four years in jail for dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm - unlicensed with serial serious traffic offences - no charge for leaving the scene, with a cyclist dead on the road. By this standard, you and I would have got off scot-free. Are the road rules up to the mark? I say not. Also note the headline does not mention death, just hit-run. Feel free to email the Courier Mail on http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/ . Donga The Courier Mail, 13-14 May 2006 Drink-driver, 23, jailed for hit-run Leanne Edmistone A PROMISING football career was destroyed when a Broncos' scholarship player with a bad traffic history yesterday admit*ted running down a cyclist while he was drink-driving. Jason James Walters, 23, had been drinking for hours on Monday, March 21, last year when he knocked down a cyclist riding home from work. Walters did not stop. Passers-by found Aaron Patrick Butler, 24, lying in a pool of blood in the middle of a turning lane on Wynnum Road at Wynnum, his badly damaged bike metres away. Walters pleaded guilty before the Brisbane District Court to one count of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance. Prosecutor Chris Minnery said Walters was unlicensed at the time, had previously been disqualified from driving and had been sentenced to a 15-month suspended jail term just nine months earlier for dangerous driving. Judge John McGill SC sentenced Walters to four years' jail, to be served on top of the activated sentence he is currently serving. |
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