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It was, said De Costa’s counsel Glen Prentice, a “bad error of judgement”. While De Costa had driven through the red light, CCTV footage had revealed the boy had run out onto the road in front of his car. ”It’s an unfortunate chain of events. He is very remorseful,” Prentice said. De Costa had no previous charges but had incurred demerit points on his driver’s licence for incidents in 2018 and 2012. He had pled guilty at an earlier appearance and was keen to participate in a restorative justice conference with the victim’s family. They, however, were not keen.

123RF “She was a guest in your house and she was your partner’s sister. She had looked up to you as a big brother,” a judge told the man (file photo). A man who raped his sister-in-law said he was so disgusted at himself that he’d take the death penalty. The 36-year-old man was jailed for almost five years by Judge Stephen Clark at Hamilton District Court on Monday. He can’t be named, to avoid identifying the woman he raped after she fell asleep on his couch in January 2021. He had drunk “far too much” that night and was remorseful and gutted, defence lawyer Glen Prentice sai...