Chitchat Justice served after damned Chink kills poor innocent Kiwi

Tourist driver sentenced to 17 months jail over crash death

11:05 AM Friday Jun 17, 2016

Rhys Middleton was killed by tourist driver Jieling Xiao. Photo / Supplied


A tourist driver from China was sentenced to 17 months in jail today for causing a crash which killed a motorcyclist in Napier.

Jieling Xiao pleaded guilty last month to dangerous driving, causing the death of 23-year-old Rhys Middleton. She crashed into the motorcyclist on State Highway Five, north of Napier, in February.

Mr Middleton, from Tauranga, was travelling with five motorcycle companions, including his father and brother, as they returned home from a gathering of bike enthusiasts in Havelock North.

Xiao, who also disqualified from driving for three years and ordered to pay $10,000 in reparation, was on a New Zealand on a 12-month working visa.

She had a full driver's licence in China for six years but had very limited experience driving in 100kph zones or on single lane rural roads.

Friends and family of Mr Middleton packed the public gallery at Napier District Court this morning for the sentencing. One woman entered the court holding a picture of Mr Middleton.

The court heard that the day before the fatal crash, Xiao had gone out to practise her driving in a car she had bought just the week before. A passenger in the car had expressed concerns over her driving ability and felt fearful.

Prosecutor Steve Manning said Mr Middleton's death was a tragedy that could have been easily avoided if she had recognised her inability to drive on open roads.

Judge Mackintosh initially sentenced Xiao to three and a half years in jail but she reduced this due to Xiao's early plea and remorse.

She described her driving as grossly incompetent and an accident waiting to happen.

Xiao was extremely distraught as the sentence was handed down.

Mr Middleton's mother Judy, father Michael, brother Ryan and fiancé Laura Settle read out victim impact statements to the court and a letter of remorse from Xiao was read by her lawyer, Scott Jefferson.

In the victim impact statements, family members said their lives would never be the same.

Ms Settle and Mr Middleton would have married on February 11 next year.
- Hawkes Bay Today

Copyright ©2016, NZME. Publishing Limited

What a waste of beauty.

Why doesn't Leongsam initiate a petition to restrict foreigners from driving in his damn country? Make those foreigners undergo an expensive conversion course and make a profit! I suggest a one day conversion course for tourists at NZD5000 to keep out the undesirables. Make the passing rate only at 10%. Repeat tests will be charged at NZD2000. I don't want to hear any more complaints on SBF.

syed putra said:

What a waste of beauty.

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Aft serving your jail sentence and doing ur suspension pls come to Spore, we welcome you here with open arms to kill more Sinkies. Afterall, you wont be the first and last frm Tiong land to kill Sinkies on our roads.

shittypore said:

Aft serving your jail sentence and doing ur suspension pls come to Spore, we welcome you here with open arms to kill more Sinkies. Afterall, you wont be the first and last frm Tiong land to kill Sinkies on our roads.

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Sinkie drivers are killing poor innocent Kiwis too. All chinks are the same. They're fucked up drivers because of their slitty eyes and bad eyesight which restricts their vision and spatial awareness.

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread....enced-for-causing-death-of-poor-innocent-kiwi

Leongsam said:

Sinkie drivers are killing poor innocent Kiwis too. All chinks are the same. They're fucked up drivers because of their slitty eyes and bad eyesight which restricts their vision and spatial awareness.

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread....enced-for-causing-death-of-poor-innocent-kiwi

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Than the Kiwi's are fools, why allow these Fireigners on the roads, they shld impose strict regulations b4 allowing em to drive or banned all Chinks frm driving.

She bought the car a week ago, she went out to practise on the road when she killed the poor chap. Her own passenger complained that her driving was bad. Go to any part of the World from Canada in the far West and up North to New Zealand down South and far East and the story is the same when it comes to us Chinese and our driving. All the stand-up comics make fun of us. Even when I drive overseas, and I see a car driven where simple rules are flouted, a Chinese behind the wheels no longer comes as a surprise. Its a phenomenon that needs to be studied. The other phenomenon is wearing long gloves by female middle aged Chinese females in western countries.