The Sydney mum will serve her sentence in the community after the family of one of the boys killed in the Banksia Road PS tragedy in 2017 urged the judge to not consider jail time.
Maha Al-Shennag, 56, has fronted NSW District court on Friday denying she deliberately pressed the accelerator that caused her car to crash into a Greenacre primary school killing two boys.
21:44 EDT, 22 May 2021
Maha Al-Shennag (pictured left) crashed her four-wheel-drive straight through a wall and into Banksia Road Public School, south-west of Sydney, in November 2017
The family of a child who was killed when a driver ploughed into a classroom of a school in Sydney s west has asked the court not to jail the woman in an incredible show of forgiveness.
Maha Al-Shennag crashed her four-wheel drive straight through a wall and into Banksia Road Public School, south-west of Sydney, in November 2017.
The 52-year-old killed eight-year-old Jihad Darwiche and nine-year-old Andrew Encinas in the horror accident and is facing 10 years in prison, but Jihad s father doesn t want to see her go behind bars.