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A British backpacker who struck and killed a man while riding an e-scooter drunk has been jailed for four years in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alicia Kemp, 25 – from Redditch, Worcestershire – was driving at speeds of 20 to 25km\/h (12 to 15mph) when she hit 51-year-old Thanh Phan from behind on a Perth sidewalk in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had been drinking with a friend all afternoon, the court heard, and had an alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phan, a father-of-two, hit his head on the pavement and died in hospital from a brain bleed two days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A friend of Kemp, who was a passenger on the scooter, was also hurt in the crash – sustaining a fractured skull and broken nose – but her injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kemp, who was in Australia on a working holiday visa, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in the Perth Magistrates Court in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You, Miss Kemp, are the cautionary tale,” Judge Wendy Hughes said in her sentencing on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“E-scooters are not toys.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kemp’s sentence will be backdated to 1 June, and she’ll be eligible for parole after serving two years of her sentence. Her driver’s licence was also disqualified for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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