Vic: Drunk driver gets suspended sentence

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2006
Vic: Drunk driver gets suspended sentence

A man who injured five children when he drove into a wall at a Melbourne primary school
.. has escaped going to prison after being handed a three-year suspended jail sentence.

32-year-old Sudanese refugee TABAN GANY of Doveton .. had a blood alcohol reading more
than three times the legal limit .. when he drove into a brick wall at Dandenong West
Primary School on May 19 last year.

Judge PETER GEBHARDT sentenced him to three years jail .. fully suspended .. after
GANY pleaded guilty at the Victorian County Court.





In the incident the bricks crushed a six-year-old boy .. who had to have his right
foot amputated .. and an 11-year-old girl .. who suffered multiple fractures to her right
leg.

Another 11-year-old girl had to have 35 stitches in her head.

AAP RTV mj/dk/drp/bart

KEYWORD: GANY (MELBOURNE)

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