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<\/p>\nA Sydney woman who lost control and fatally ran down her abusive ex-husband sobbed as she learned she could be released from prison in a few months. <\/p>\n
Samantha Hooker, formerly Stone, accelerated towards her ex-husband Peter, mounting a pavement and pinning him against the wall of a home at Schofields in Sydney’s west on August 8, 2023.<\/p>\n
Peter suffered serious injuries and died from sepsis more than three weeks later.<\/p>\n
On Friday, his former wife, a 47-year-old former pathology worker, was seen sobbing next to a support person in the dock at the NSW Supreme Court as she was sentenced.<\/p>\n
Justice Hament Dhanji found Peter engaged in a continuing campaign of intimidation and provocation against his partner, leading her to feel powerless as he refused to end the relationship.<\/p>\n
This powerlessness transformed into anger and rage, leading her to lose control during the confrontation in August 2023, the judge found. <\/p>\n
Hooker’s abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs, including drug supply, added to his spouse’s mental strife, he said.<\/p>\n
“What can be said … is that the relationship was toxic,” Justice Dhanji said.<\/p>\n
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He took into consideration those circumstances when he reduced Samantha’s sentence, imposing a maximum term of three years and nine months.<\/p>\n
Her two-year non-parole period was backdated to account for the time already served in custody and home detention, meaning Hooker will be eligible for release on November 22.<\/p>\n
She was found not guilty of murder in March after a jury heard she had experienced extreme provocation and a significant mental impairment following years of abuse.<\/p>\n
Samantha pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.<\/p>\n
On the day she ran over her ex-husband, Samantha drove to his home and was physically violent towards him, Justice Dhanji heard in April.<\/p>\n
Drone footage played to the court during the trial showed the route she took while driving to her ex-husband.<\/p>\n
Tyre marks were visible on the pavement, while the silver hatchback with Medlab Pathology branding sat with its front end smashed against the side of the brick house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney woman who lost control and fatally ran down her abusive ex-husband sobbed as she learned she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-496051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}