Teen charged after man killed in alleged hit-run at Dingley Village
A teenager has been charged and denied bail after a hit-run crash that left a man dead in Dingley Village in Melbourne’s southeast last week.
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A teenager has been denied bail after handing himself in to police over the hit-run death of a man in Dingley Village last week.
Floyd Hennessy, 19, faced the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with culpable driving causing death and other driving offences.
It is alleged the teen was behind the wheel of a Holden commodore that killed a 53-year-old Dingley Village man last Friday.
Police and emergency services were called to Spring Rd in the early hours of Friday morning after a passer-by found a man’s body about 4.30am.
The victim, who died at the scene, had allegedly found Mr Hennessy and a co-accused scoping out his vehicle — to steal — and confronted the pair by jumping on to the car and grabbing on to the roof racks.
The court heard Mr Hennessy drove off, with the man atop the car, before braking “several times,” throwing the victim under the car before reversing.
“The victim was caught underneath the Holden … and dragged approximately 80m,” Detective Senior Constable Lauren McNeice, the informant, said.
The teen ditched the car in bushes before fleeing home, where he allegedly said to his mother, Dionne Richards, “tell my friends you haven’t seen me,” the court heard.
He later confessed to her what had happened and she convinced the teen to go to police.
He made a full admission.
The court heard it was Mr Hennessy’s first time in custody and that he has a child who lives in Queensland.
Magistrate Mykytowycz said the teen was facing “considerable jail time”.
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Det Snr Cons McNeice said Mr Hennessy would “absolutely” be a risk if granted bail.
The family moved from Queensland to Victoria three years ago.
The teen was supported in court by his mother, brother Connor, and friends.
When denied bail, friends sitting in court put heads in hands, with one yelling “love you Floyd.”
The group, including Mr Hennessy’s mother, then raised hands and waved as he left the court.
He was remanded to reappear on April 28, 2020.