Woman jailed in driving assault case

Tuesday 12th January 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

The accident happened in Brooklyn Street, outside the Mayfair Hotel

A WOMAN has been jailed for 2 years and 9 months and disqualified from driving for five years for causing serious injury to three women when she drove into them last April.

Sophie de la Haye (23) pleaded guilty to committing grave and criminal assaults on the women in Brooklyn Street on 24 April, after they had attended the Miss St Saviour competition.

The Royal Court ruled yesterday that she could be charged with grave and criminal assault – the first time that this has happened in relation to a driving offence. Her defence argued, unsuccessfully, that this would be unlawful.

De La Haye also pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to stop after an accident, one of dangerous driving and one of drink-driving.

• Full report on the sentencing in Wednesday’s Jersey Evening Post.

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