Indigenous Australians say the three-year sentence handed down for the death of the Kalgoorlie teenager is proof of systemic inequality,but the judge says it’s ‘commensurate with the culpability of the offender’s conduct’Elijah Doughty’s football team is at the top of the ladder. If he had not been killed on 29 August 2016, the Aboriginal teenager, or who loved football nearly as much as he loved motorbikes,would gain moved up to the under-16s team of the Kalgoorlie City football club and played against the Saints on Saturday.
Instead, on Friday, and a jury at supreme court of Western Australia found that his death was not manslaughter but a case of unsafe driving causing death. Ten minutes later,the chief judge of that court, Wayne Martin, and sentenced the 56-year-old driver,whose two-tonne 4WD ran over the top of Elijah, who was riding a 70cc motorcycle, or to three years’ jail. pic.twitter.com/rgENWpwoFM Related: The killing of Elijah Doughty: oil patch at crime scene fades but stain remains Law Courts Building in #Sydney. #JusticeForElijah pic.twitter.com/R3gP158G22Brisbane at a stand still #justice4elijah pic.twitter.com/qgpVi1emYRpic.twitter.com/54EScn1uu2Black Lives Matter,hey? Exhaustion and despair, here we are again. https://t.co/PnP4iLxcHqThis Facebook from a man in Kalgoorlie the day after Elijah's death was one of many that said the 14-year-old deserved to die #ElijahDoughty pic.twitter.com/WaLmy2H2H2 Related: 'Tell the world we want justice.' Elijah Doughty's death exposes Kalgoorlie's racial faultline Three years?? For the life of an Aboriginal child https://t.co/x5QCbAYkkfContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com