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Hamiora Te Kira and Kararaina Te Rupe died in a car crash on Macraes Rd, near Palmerston, Otago, in August 2020.
A learner driver had consumed cannabis and alcohol before crashing her car on a rural Otago road killing her two friends – the parents of four young children. . Annika Natalie Ludlow, 19, of Palmerston, wept as Judge Jim Large sentenced her to 12 months’ home detention and disqualified her from driving for three years when she appeared in the Oamaru District Court on Thursday. She had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death while driving with excess blood alcohol. Judge Large said Ludlow consumed cannabis and alcohol before inviting Hamiora Te Kira, 27, and Kararaina Te Rupe, 28, for a joyride in her new Honda Civic on August 29, 2020.
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Emotions high as drink-driver who killed parents of four pleads guilty
27 Jan, 2021 08:06 PM
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A Palmerston woman appeared in the Oamaru District Court yesterday, in relation to the deaths of two people in this crash near Macraes in August last year. Photo: Peter McIntosh
Otago Daily Times
People in the public gallery of the Oamaru District Court were in tears yesterday as a Palmerston woman admitted causing the deaths of two people while she was drink-driving near Macraes last year.
Emotions were high as Annika Natalie Ludlow (19) pleaded guilty to two charges of driving with an excess blood-alcohol level, causing the deaths of parents of four Hamiora Te Kira (27), known as Tama, and Kararaina Te Rupe (28), in the August 29 crash.