“I’m totally distraught. My life is on standstill,” Shamim said. “Nothing can bring him back but I probably loved him more than I loved myself.” The sentence finishes more than two torturous years for Shamim, first thanks to police and then the justice system. Denise Piper/Stuff Michael Gardyne, right, was sentenced in the Whangarei District Court to three years, four months jail for drink-driving causing death. Initially, police did not tell her how the crash was caused, but she believed it was not Geoff’s fault because he had safely driven her all over the world, both on motorbikes and cars.