A woman who hit and killed two pedestrians at an Edgeworth intersection in 2010 has had her minimum prison sentence of two years tripled in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal.
Picture of the scene, October 10 2010
45-year-old Karen Winter lost control of her van at an Edgeworth intersection on October 10 2010, striking and killing Janet Sharples and Rebecca Weir.
Winter said she had earlier fainted at a doctor’s surgery, and was told not to drive, after receiving morphine for a migraine headache.
Despite that, she drove home and smoked “two or three cones of cannabis” before getting back in her car to drive back to work, where she mounted the kerb and hit the women.
Winter has now been re-sentenced to a minimum of six years in jail.
The Director of Public Prosecutions had appealed the original sentence on the basis it was too lenient.
