Her priors are truly appalling - stealing pain-killers from elderly patients in hospitals; posing as a nurse for these hospitals (which she was not); using said pain-killers to support her drug habit. On top of the terrible road death and her denial of responsibility and litany of lies and excuses. She has little grounds for leniency.find_bruce wrote:Not drunk, not on drugs at the time, unlikelybiker jk wrote:Surely she'll be gaoled for at least three years.
The current penalty in Victoria, just for the 'failure to render assistance' charge is a max of 10 years in prison (bumped up after the Eugene McGee debacle in SA). Culpable driving should be even higher, but is almost never fully penalised.