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Queensland News
October 4 , 2008
Alan Edward Ross was drunk , drugged , speeding , hooning and unlicensed when he crashed his car on the Gold Coast and killed his two young sons , he also fled the scene as his children lay dead and dying in the mangaled wreckage.
But yesterday , Ross's partner Jade Zeaiter - the mother of the children , who also was in the car - was standing by her man , Ms Zeaiter was in court to support Ross , 26 , as he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death with circumstances of aggravation.
With tattoos of her dead children on her back , she wept throughout the hearing and angrily disputed facts read out by the prosecutor , protesting against the eight - year jail sentence handed down to Ross.
"Eight years is f-----bull**** ,'' an emotional Ms Zeaiter said outside the court '' i've lost my whole f-----family , Ms Zeaiter also abused journalists , telliing them: "Why don't you write that he's a good dad?.
The court was told that Ross had been drinking and smoking cannabis before speeding from Southport shopping centre about 6:15PM on June 14 last year with Ms Zeaiter and their two sons Khye , 2 , and Zac , 8 months , Crown prosecutor Stuart Shearer said witnesses reported seeing the sedan doing burnouts and fishtailing before "flying" along Cotlew St East at speeds of at least 138kh/h.
The car mounted a median strip , mowed down three large trees and "barrel-rolled" before flipping on it's side , the court heard . Khye died at the scene and Zac , who was in a baby capsule , died the following day in hospital.
"After the car was turned back on its wheels (by a passer by) , the prisoner looked inside where one of his children was dead and the other was dying , and ran from the scene ," Mr Shearer told the court "Witnesses described him disappearing into the darkness.
Friends who drove Ross to hospital to see his dying child said he later discussed concocting a story that Ms Zeaiter had crashed the car after being taken hostage at gunpoint , after fleeing the accident , Ross had emerged from bushes drinking a bourbon and cola alcohol cans were found at the crash scene , along with marijuana his blood - alcohol reading at the time of the crash was estimated to be 0.163.
Defence barrister Sean Cousins said Ross had fled the scene only because he was "tremendously shocked and deeply distressed" and not because he was trying to evade police . "Nothing that i say will ever reflect the depth of his sorrow or grief ," Mr Cousins said.
Judge Kerry O'Brien remarked: "That's something that he will have to live with for the rest of his life."
Judge O'Brien said it was "a bad case of dangerous driving by any measure".
He Jailed Ross for eight years and banned him from driving for life.
No parole period was set , meaning Ross will have to serve at least four years
Above information supplied by the couriermail.com.au
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