A 40-year-old driver was sentenced to 14 years and nine months for killing a 16-year-old girl after running three red lights while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
A high and drunk driver who sped through three red lights and killed a 16-year-old girl in Carlton has been labelled “a grave danger to anyone” as he was sentenced. Gulet Mohammed Ahmed, 40, was handed a maximum prison term of 14 years and nine months on Wednesday surrounded by his victims and the loving parents of Katherine Antonia Osborne. Gulet Mohammed Ahmed ran multiple red lights on the morning of March 11, 2023, before he slammed into the car carrying 16-year-old Katherine Osborne.
“Katherine was a caring and capable young woman,” County Court judge Anne Hassan told Ahmed as she sentenced him.Ahmed was high on methylamphetamine and drunk when he got behind the wheel of a Volkswagen sedan on the morning of March 11, 2023.About 11.40am he was seen speeding and dangerously driving through Flemington, with one person reporting him to police. Moments before the fatal crash, he drove through a red light at Curzon Street and crashed into another vehicle before reversing backwards and driving off from the scene. He drove through a second red light at the corner of Elgin and Cardigan Streets in Carlton without slowing down.Then, at 11.53am, Ahmed ignored a third red light and crashed into the Osborne family’s Alfa Romeo at the corner of Elgin and Lygon Streets. Katherine was in the back seat being driven by her parents, Michael and Alexandra, when Ahmed hit their car and pushed it into a pole.After hitting the pole, the Alfa Romeo collided with two pedestrians, Travis Oliver and Jeffrey Broussard, who were crossing Elgin Street with their dog, leaving them both injured. Ahmed’s reckless behaviour continued after the crash when he was pulled out of his car, started screaming and assaulted a man on the footpath. He yelled “f--- the police bastards” and punched the man, who was trying to calm Ahmed down. He was restrained by members of the public until police arrived at the scen
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