Vic: Former champ jockey launches appeal against kill conviction
A former champion jockey has appealed against his nine-year sentence for culpable drivingthat killed a woman.
Twenty-nine-year-old FRANKIE STOCKDALE'S barrister has told the Victorian Court ofAppeal the trial judge gave inadequate directions to the jury.
TONY HOWARD, QC, says the judge failed to remind the jury about evidence given by aneuro-psychologist, Dr ANDREW GIBBS.
He says Dr GIBBS had referred to alcoholic blackouts and the possibility of someonedriving a car automatically.
STOCKDALE was sentenced in May last year.
The former Grand National steeplechase winner was driving on the wrong side of a freewaywhen he crashed head-on into another vehicle in 1999.
Forty-one-year-old IVICA KLANGA was killed and her husband and two of their sons were injured.
The appeal court will hand down its judgement tomorrow.
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KEYWORD: STOCKDALE (MELBOURNE)
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