Aussie gets 11-yr jail for killing Sikh cabbie
Saturday, 15/02/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140215/punjab.htm#16
Melbourne : A court in Australia today jailed a man for 11 years for killing an Indian-origin taxi driver and his British passenger by smashing his stolen vehicle into their taxi while being high on drugs.
The West Australian Supreme Court here sentenced Antony Edward Fogarty, 24, who admitted to killing Kuldeep Singh and his passenger Sean Duncan Barrett.
Barrett, 36, had been in Australia for less than an hour and Singh, 28, was driving him from the airport to his hotel when they collided with Fogarty as he sped through a red light in October 2012, Australia’s AAP news agency reported.
The court heard that the pair was killed instantly as the taxi burst into flames. Justice Michael Corboy accepted that Fogarty did not intend to cause the accident, but he was driving with “recklessly excessive speed” and should have known the danger.
Fogarty’s sentence was backdated to October 2012, and he will be eligible for parole in 2021.
