The attorney general on Tuesday said he will appeal a 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier this summer.
The office of Attorney-General George Savvides tweeted that he has lodged an appeal against the court’s decision after having studying the sentence and deeming it insufficient.
The decision comes just days after the family decried the sentence as “a huge insult”, in a statement issued through lawyers on Saturday.
The case is centred on the fatal crash which occurred on May 5. Christina Camilla Palmdahl – aged 46 – had left her five-year-old daughter in the care of hotel staff so that she could cross the road and visit the nearby supermarket – only to be hit by the rental buggy at the pedestrian crossing soon after.
A 26-year-old British tourist, named as Manraj Singh Sidhu, was found guilty last Monday of carrying out a dangerous and reckless act which resulted in the death of a person, reckless and dangerous driving, and abandoning the scene of a fatal crash, among other charges.
He had fled the scene on foot but was tracked down by police a few hours later.
An alcotest several hours after the incident found a reading of 44μg, more than four times over the legal limit of 9μg, and a drugs test returned positive for cannabis.
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