from lambo to lamebo - … sukhcharanjit singh’s passport. until he was caught late last month he...
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HERALDSUN.COM.AU FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013 NEWS 03
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FROM LAMBO TO LAMEBO IT’S enough to make a grown man weep — a $200,000 Lamborghini is off to the wreckers after a test run ended in disaster.
The owner was left devastated after the luxury car, due to be delivered yesterday, was written off.
A mechanic was driving the car when a woman did a U-turn on Arden St, North Melbourne, and hit it.
Lorbek Luxury Cars ownerSrecko Lorbek said: “We are
very upset and the owner is devastated. Perfect cars like this one are hard to find and we went to a lot of trouble to find it. This one was a particularly special one.”
Mr Lorbek said his dealership would not resell the car.
The 2004 yellow Lamborghini Gallardo had one owner, had travelled 18,453km and was a six-speed manual coupe that retailed for $200,000. Before: the immaculate car on display. After: the car was hit during a test run.
KILLER: I’M SO SORRY
He said his parents hadtried to do well in life (by send-ing him to Australia to study).
“But there was the accidentthat happened that ruined mylife,” he said.
Puneet, who fled Australiaon a friend’s passport after ad-mitting guilt over the fatal ac-
cident, spent four years on therun in India before beingcaught on November 29.
He made a one-minute ap-pearance before subdivisionjudicial magistrate RupinverSingh in the Raijpura Magis-trates’ Court.
He was remanded to appearin Delhi on Friday, where it’spossible his extradition couldbe ordered immediately.
Puneet was drunk and driv-ing at almost 150km/h when hecrashed into Mr Hofstee andhis friend, Clancy Coker, onCity Rd, Southbank, at12.50am on October 1, 2008.
The learner driver, then 19,fled the scene. When arrestedhe recorded a blood alcoholreading of 0.165.
Puneet pleaded guilty inFebruary 2009 to culpabledriving and negligently caus-ing serious injury and wasbailed on strict conditions, in-cluding surrendering his In-dian passport.
But on June 12, before hecould be sentenced, he man-aged to flee to India usingfriend Sukhcharanjit Singh’spassport. Until he was caughtlate last month he was livingcomfortably, earning goodmoney working in a call centre,and was getting [email protected] TAWQEER HUSSAIN
HIT-RUN FUGITIVE BEGS FOR HELP, FEARING HE’LL DIE IN AUSSIE JAIL
ELLEN WHINNETTRAIJPURA, INDIA
FUGITIVE killer driver Pun-eet Puneet has pleaded for helpfrom the Indian Governmenton the eve of his likely extra-dition to Australia, saying hefeared he wouldn’t live to re-turn home.
Puneet, 24, made an emo-tional apology for the drunken,high-speed car crash in whichhe killed student Dean Hofsteein Melbourne in 2008.
“I feel so sorry. It was an ac-cident,” he said.
“I didn’t see him.”Surrounded by six police of-
ficers armed with rifles, Pun-eet, wearing a scarf over hisface and a beanie pulled low onhis head, said he didn’t knowwhat would happen to him.
Puneet asked the IndianGovernment for help, as heprepared for an extraditionhearing.
“I’m scared — I don’t wantto go to Australia,” he said.
“Accidents happen every-where, but they are treatingthis differently,” he said.
“I have no resources tofight. I am pleading again andagain to the Indian Govern-ment to come forward andhelp me,” he said.
“I don’t know if I’ll come tolive again in India or not.”
Hit-run victim Dean Hofstee.
Puneet Puneet yesterday.
Puneet Puneet arrives at the Judicial Court Complex in Raijpura yesterday under heavy police escort. Pictures: TONY GOUGH