22-year-old getaway driver pleads guilty to three charges after last year’s fatal car crash in Canberra

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The getaway driver who left the scene of a fatal crash on 'Adelaide Avenue' last year has faced the mother of the 15-year-old victim during a sentencing hearing in the ACT supreme court. 22-year-old Jaydon Chauveau has pleaded guilty to three charges, including 'being an accessory after the fact'.

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00:0015 forever. That's how the victim's mother described her son as she spoke of the day

00:08that she says changed her world forever. She told the court the shock set in at the hospital.

00:15They spoke a lot of medical terms I could not understand. They said the machines were

00:21breathing for him, and he was dead. The 15-year-old had been in a car allegedly

00:26driven by another 15-year-old in a high-speed ride around Canberra. When the car crashed,

00:33the boy suffered catastrophic injuries and was left on the road as three others crawled

00:39out alive. Jayden Chaveau circled back in a stolen car, quickly retrieving the three and

00:46fleeing the scene. He dropped the group off and torched the car in a paddock, leading to

00:52a charge of arson. His lawyer played down his role, saying he didn't even see the crash.

00:59He's not criminally liable for the offence. He's criminally liable for leaving with the

01:04alleged principal offender. But the prosecution said Chaveau made a choice

01:09to leave, in keeping with a history of a person who has a very cavalier approach to driving

01:16cars that are not his. Even the judge described Chaveau's criminal record as appalling and

01:23sad. One of the passengers has already been sentenced, but the alleged 15-year-old driver

01:30is yet to stand trial. Chaveau will be sentenced later in the year.

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