A drunk and disqualified driver who hit and killed a teenager on the night of the Rugby World Cup final has been sent to prison.
Sivo Kerr earlier pleaded guilty to driving with excess breath alcohol causing death and driving while disqualified.
In Auckland District Court today Judge Grant Fraser sentenced Kerr to three years and one month in prison.
He also disqualified Kerr, a mechanical engineer, from driving for five years and ordered him to pay $1500 in emotional reparations to the victim's family when he gets out of jail.
"Sadly, with such a large loss of such a young person, no sentence of any court can put that right," Judge Fraser said.
The court was told Kerr was a disqualified driver who had previous convictions for drink driving. He was driving at more than 70kmh in a 50kmh zone when he hit teenager Sanele Pauli in Auckland last October.
Sanele was with his two brothers celebrating the All Blacks' one-point victory over France when he was hit on the busy Great North Road.
He had just stepped off a bus in Point Chevalier after a trip from the Viaduct Harbour downtown.
Sanele was just weeks away from finishing his High School education at Avondale College.
Judge Fraser thanked Sanele's family, who were in court for the sentencing.
He told Kerr that he hoped the repeat drink driver embraced all the help on offer when he was inside prison.
"I understand Sanele's family is absolutely distraught and I suspect they are very, very angry about what has happened."
Judge Grant told Kerr that he would have to live with the death for the rest of his life.
