Vic: Hit-run driver avoids further jail time

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2006
Vic: Hit-run driver avoids further jail time

MELBOURNE, April 28 AAP - A driver charged over a hit-run accident that killed a 19-year-old
Victorian man has avoided further jail time.

The Victorian County Court today sentenced Michael Leslie Hore, 19, of the rural Victorian
town of Linton, to a nine-month, one-week intensive corrections order.

Andrew Wayne Knowles died about 20 metres from his Linton home, west of Melbourne,
after being struck by a car driven by Hore on April 17, 2005.

Hore, who was driving on a fake licence, later turned himself in to police.

He pleaded guilty to failing to stop, render assistance and report an accident to police.

But Judge Tony Duckett today told the court Hore's actions did not contribute to the
death of Mr Knowles, who had a blood alcohol content of 0.17 and was walking in the middle
of the road when he was hit.

The intensive corrections order means Hore will have to undertake unpaid community
service, and undergo counselling and a program of supervised rehabilitation.

Hore already has served about five months in prison on remand over the incident, which
will reduce his actual sentence by 168 days.

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