Increase the sentence to 2.5 years imprisonment decided the Supreme Court for 26-year-old man who fatally drove his buggy into a 46-year-old Swedish woman who was attempting to cross the road on May 4 in Ayia Napa.
Specifically, the Supreme Court unanimously yesterday accepted the appeal of the Attorney General of the Republic for inadequacy of the sentence imposed by the Famagusta District Court in this fatal traffic accident.
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The Famagusta Court had imposed a sentence of 12 months imprisonment and deprivation of the right to drive for 18 months.
The Attorney General of the Republic gave immediate instructions for an appeal for inadequacy of the sentence. The Supreme Court on 1 December 2022 upheld the appeal and increased the sentence to 2.5 years imprisonment sending the appropriate messages to society that defiant, selfish driving behaviours, which result in the taking of human lives, should be dealt with severely.
Senior Public Prosecutor Thanasis Papanikolaou appeared for the Attorney General in the Supreme Court.
It is recalled that the victim was in Cyprus on holiday with her 5-year-old minor daughter. The unfortunate Swedish girl, while trying to cross Nissi Avenue in Ayia Napa on a controlled pedestrian crossing, was swept away by a passing Buggy type motor vehicle driven by the accused, an English national, aged 26. The driver of the Buggy had initially collided with a vehicle waiting for the pedestrian to cross and then violently collided with the victim, ejecting him metres away. The accused driver fled the scene leaving the victim helpless.
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