2025-07-10
Repeat offender who broke red light and caused death of elderly woman is jailed
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A repeat driving offender who was speeding when he ran a red light and knocked down an elderly woman as she was crossing the road, causing her death, before fleeing the scene has been jailed for four years and three months. They said his behaviour demonstrated "a reckless disregard for human life" and how he had mowed their mother down. "He imposed a death penalty on our mother and a life sentence on us until our dying breath," the statement said, before they added that Ormond "must be accountable for the life lost and the lives impacted".; Judge Nolan adjourned the case overnight to consider it.