Young lawyer's drug-driving killer jailed for three years
Marc Leabeater was a 26-year-old with a bright future, taken in an instant when he was hit by a driver high on ice last year.
The young lawyer was heading home on his motorbike last December when 20-year-old driver Taylor Angell made a sudden turn into McDonalds on Taren Point Road while driving on drugs, knocking him off his bike.
"Marc was loved by a lot of people. At his funeral there were a thousand people in attendance so he obviously touched a lot of lives," Mr Leabeater's father said.
The judge said in court the decision to drive for any length of journey, let alone a few kilometres, "represents an abandonment of the offender's responsibility".
Ms Angell pleaded guilty to aggravated dangerous driving causing death.
Three months later, she caused another accident under the influence, and had her bail revoked.
Today, Mr Leabeater's family and friends were in court to hear the 20-year-old sentenced to a minimum of three years and three months.
The judge hopes this sentence will act as a warning to every drug user to never drive while under the influence.
"Our family are just one of the many that have to deal with the fallout of ice addicts in our country," his father said.
