Should the great unwashed remain sanguine about the application of the law. A stiff tonic might be needed to deal with today’s harlequinade played out in the Downing Centre District Court.
‘You’re free to go’: Daughter of neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has crash case withdrawn
The daughter of renowned neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has had her charges over a crash involving former Comanchero Jock Ross withdrawn at the eleventh hour.
Nicola Annabel Teo, 26, was due to face trial in Downing Centre District Court on four charges including dangerous and negligent driving occasioning actual bodily harm.
At the time of the crash in September 2019, police had alleged that Ms Teo was driving a Toyota LandCruiser on Settlers Road in the Hawkesbury region, north-west of Sydney, when it collided head-on with a Harley Davidson motorcycle, ridden by Mr Ross.
She had allegedly not kept left of the dividing line and not given her particulars to police.
However, prosecutors on Tuesday withdrew all charges.
“The matter is withdrawn and dismissed,” Judge Warwick Hunt said. “Ms Teo, there’s nothing that now holds you, and you’re free to go and get on with your life.”
Outside court, Mr Ross’s daughter, Holly, said: “It’s just not right what’s happened here today.”
The defence of automatism is concerned with involuntariness.
“Criminal responsibility does not attach to an act done in a state of automatism, that is, where the act is not done in consciousness of the nature of the act and in exercise of a choice to do an act of that nature,” the Judicial Commission of New South Wales states.
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Remember, we all equal before the law. The above case dovetails nicely with another case involving a high profile person.
Harriet Wran spared jail on ice charge, keen to 'make things right'
The daughter of former NSW premier Neville Wran says she is determined to make things right for everyone who has felt the pain of her addiction after she was caught with the drug ice.
Harriet Wran, 31, pleaded guilty in April to possessing drugs, goods in custody and not displaying P-plates, less than three years after she was released from jail over her role in the robbery and murder of a Sydney drug dealer.
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