Originally Posted by
The name is Porter
kaz, I have NEVER seen anyone in this country do anywhere near 8 to 10 years for this. Sure, the sentence may have been that, but non-parole period, probs a couple of years at most.
Puneet Puneet absconded before sentencing. The fact that he was allowed bail between leading guilty and sentencing suggests he wasn't facing an enormous sentence.
Originally Posted by
Superfly Slick Dick
Who is Puneet Puneet? What happened there?
In 2008, at age 19, driving with only a learners permit, with a blood alcohol level of 0.165, at 150kph on the edge of the Melbourne CBD in what was a 60 zone and is now a 40 zone, Puneet^2 crashed his car, killing 19-year-old Dean Hofstee and seriously injured 20-year-old Clancy Coker.
He pleaded guilty to culpable driving (essentially manslaughter with a vehicle), then while on bail awaiting sentencing, having surrendered his own passport, he buggered off back to India using a mates passport.
He has now spent 11 years in India resisting extradition for sentencing and for prosecution on misuse of travel documents.
He claims various major ailments and insists he cannot get justice in Australia because of racism, that he would be killed in Australia, and has quite possibly already sat around in Indian prison system since he was arrested shortly before his wedding at age 24 for longer than he would have been imprisoned in Australia, had he done the right thing.
Now aged 30, his problems just keep getting worse. There is little sympathy for him here in Melbourne...
https://www.theage.com.au/world/indi...213-hv5i8.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...17-ghpq85.html
https://www.news.com.au/news/nationa...82c656651d677d
Claims he will be killed if extradited.
See also: Malka Leifer...