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Melissa Oates jailed over car crash in which partner Jari Wise died
A Tasmanian woman will spend eight months in prison for a dangerous driving incident in which her former partner died last year.
Key points:
- Melissa Oates has been jailed for 14 months for dangerous driving
- Her former partner Jari Wise died after he was hit by Oates’s car at Huonville on February 29, 2020
- In sentencing, Justice Gregory Geason acknowledged the sentence “won’t satisfy those who have lost a loved one”
Melissa Oates, 35, was three times over the legal blood alcohol limit when she was driving along Wilmot Rd near Huonville at 110 kilometres per hour in the early hours of February 29 last year when her vehicle hit her former partner Jari Wise, who died at the scene.
The Hobart Supreme Court heard Oates and Mr Wise had been…
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