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Police should have abandoned chase earlier - watchdog
18 Feb, 2021 09:00 PM
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A crash investigation found Luke Savigny hit speeds of 150kmh before the collision. Photo / Rebecca Ryan
A crash investigation found Luke Savigny hit speeds of 150kmh before the collision. Photo / Rebecca Ryan
Otago Daily Times
A police chase that ended in a fatal crash outside Oamaru should have been abandoned earlier, the independent police watchdog says.
Luke Bradley Savigny (25) was jailed for five years seven months earlier this month before the High Court at Dunedin after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 32-year-old Christopher Chipper Narayan Blair.
Jail for meth-fuelled driver, lifetime of pain for victim s family
3 Feb, 2021 05:31 PM
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By: Rob Kidd
Vicki Blair raised her dead son s favourite basketball jersey to her face and inhaled its scent.
It was in a box of 32-year-old Christopher Chipper Narayan Blair s favourite items that she clutched as she made a tearful statement before the High Court at Dunedin yesterday before the man s killer was sentenced.
Luke Bradley Savigny (25) had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for five years, seven months.
The defendant, the court heard, had never held a driver s licence and had used methamphetamine before the fatal March 21 crash outside Oamaru which flung the victim 15m from the site and almost split the car in two.