Man kills his passenger in an ice-fuelled car crash

A MELBOURNE driver who was high on the drug ice when he lost control of his car and hit a tree, killing his passenger, has been sentenced.

Christina Karageorge, 28, was killed when the car she was a passenger in crashed head-on into a tree.

A MELBOURNE driver who was high on the drug ice when he lost control of his car and hit a tree, killing his passenger, has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail.

David Xavier Laretta, 29, and passenger Christina Karageorge, 28, had been to a party before the driver lost control and hit the tree in Ascot Vale, in Melbourne’s northwest, in the early hours of January 16 last year.

Christina Karageorge was a mother of three.

Christina Karageorge was killed last year.

Laretta, of Rosanna, in Melbourne’s northeast, pleaded guilty to culpable driving causing death in the County Court and was told on Tuesday he will serve a minimum of three years and nine months behind bars.