A drunken, drug-fuelled man who killed his girlfriend in a car crash at Laverton North may serve less than five years of his seven-year prison sentence.
Sasho Ristovski, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving causing death, and one charge of reckless conduct endangering a person following the car accident in the early hours of July 4, 2014.
Ristovski was over the legal blood alcohol limit and was affected by the drug ice when he lost control of his car on the corner of Dohertys and Fitzgerald roads.
The car was airborne for five metres before hitting a tree in a median strip at 82km/h, the court heard.
The crash killed Ristovski’s passenger and girlfriend, Maddison Tilyard. Ristovski sustained broken ribs and collarbone and a fractured spine.
Ristovski, a former security guard, had picked up Maddison and her friend, Amber Newman, from a friend’s house in Craigieburn about 3am that day.
The court heard soon after he had almost crashed into another car, and was seen speeding at about 210km/h.
He ignored warnings from Ms Newman, who was dropped off before the crash, to slow down.
At a sentencing hearing last month Judge Frank Gucciardo sentenced Ristovski to seven years’ jail, with a non-parole period of four years and nine months.
