Hunter Valley bus crash driver’s jailing ‘not about revenge’, judge tells grieving families
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6QJYB)
Driver Brett Button faces lengthy jail term as accountability, deterrence and punishment', NSW judge says
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A judge has warned bus driver Brett Button he can expect a lengthy jail term but told the victims' grieving families justice is not about revenge".
Newcastle district court judge Roy Ellis on Monday asked for restraint in the packed courtroom during an expected three-day sentence hearing for Button, 59, who caused one of Australia's deadliest crashes, killing 10 people and injuring 25, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley region.
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