Coroner & Legal
Tasmanian DPP Tim Ellis gets suspended jail sentence, driving ban over fatal crash
Tasmania’s Director of Public Prosecutions Tim Ellis has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence and a two-year driving ban over a fatal car crash.
In June, Ellis was found guilty of causing the death of 27-year-old Launceston woman Natalia Pearn on the Midland Highway in March last year through negligent driving.
Earlier this month, Ellis lost an appeal against the guilty verdict.
The appeal judge rejected 59-year-old Ellis’s argument that he was asleep at the wheel at the time and that the crash was caused by his sleep apnoea, not negligence.