School crash driver loses appeal

A DOVETON drink-driver whose car crashed into four school children lost an appeal against his 21-month jail sentence last week.
Sudanese refugee Taban William Gany, 33, had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit when he ploughed through a brick wall at Dandenong West Primary School on 19 May 2005.
Gany was originally given a three-year wholly suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to six charges, including four counts of negligently causing serious injury, one count of reckless conduct endangering persons and exceeding the prescribed concentration of alcohol.
However, the Office of Public Prosecutions appealed against the sentence, labelling it as inadequate.
The Court of Appeal then sentenced the Doveton resident to a maximum three-year jail term.
Gany appealed against the sentence in the High Court last Friday but was unsuccessful.
Four children were seriously injured in the collision in 2005, including seven-year-old Sabi Mashid, who had his right foot amputated, and 11-year-old Medina Hubanic, who suffered multiple leg fractures.