An Adelaide woman whose “drug-fuelled dangerous driving” killed two “innocent” and much-loved brothers has been jailed for nine years.
Key points:
- Michelle Bubner was high on drugs when she crashed into another car on Victor Harbor Road
- Two brothers in the other vehicle were killed
- She will spend at least seven years in jail
Mojtaba Mohammadi, 31, and his brother Mohammad Jawad Mohammadi, 28, died when Michelle Kendy Bubner drove onto the wrong side of Victor Harbor Road at Mount Jagged, south of Adelaide, in May last year.
The two men were travelling to Victor Harbor to pick up an item they had seen advertised on Gumtree when Bubner, who was returning from work as a cleaner, crashed head-on into their van.
Bubner, who pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, was under the influence of methamphetamine at the time.
During sentencing, Judge Simon Stretton said her actions had torn apart a “very loving and close-knit family”.
“You had taken methamphetamine and there was a significant amount of that very harmful drug in your system,” he said.
“You did not brake or do anything whatsoever to avoid a collision.
“Mohammad and Motjaba Mohammadi were two young men going about their business who did not deserve to have their lives cut short by your drug-fuelled dangerous driving.”
Judge Stretton said Bubner greatly regretted her actions and was sorry, but that her crime should be met with “the greatest condemnation”.
Sentence ‘unfair’ on family
Bubner cried and blew a kiss to her family as she was sentenced to nine years in prison with a non-parole period of seven years and two months.
The brothers’ family declined to comment outside court, but friends of the two men said the sentence was not harsh enough.
“It’s unfair you know. She’s killed two people,” one friend Beau called said after the sentence.
“You go on the street and kill two people, you do 25 years.
“She’s killed someone in a car while high on meth and she’s gotten a nine-year sentence — it’s unfair.
“I mean look at the poor family; they’re broken.”
Jawad’s partner, who declined to be named, said the sentence was not fair.
“Nine years is not long enough, not for taking two boys away from everyone they loved,” she said.
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