Hong Kong rejects Australian’s manslaughter appeal

Updated December 29, 2011 00:03:02

A Hong Kong court has rejected an appeal bid by an Australian man convicted of manslaughter over the death of a taxi driver.

Kelsey Mudd, 24, received a jail sentence of four years and three months last year after being found guilty over the death of the taxi driver in 2009.

Mudd, who has joint US-Australian citizenship, was accused of commandeering the taxi while drunk and crashing into a fence, killing the 58-year-old driver.

The court rejected Mudd’s appeal, saying the initial verdict was “neither unsafe nor unsatisfactory”.

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First posted December 29, 2011 00:03:02

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