Driver who was streaming ‘Big Bang Theory’ in crash that killed bride weeks before wedding is sentenced

New York Post - 31/08
Bailey Camilleri caused 28-year-old Gemma Thompson’s death due to being distracted by an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” playing on his phone in November 2021, the judge ruled.

A young dad who was streaming Netflix when his truck swerved and fatally hit a schoolteacher two weeks before her wedding has been sentenced to jail.

Bailey Camilleri caused 28-year-old Gemma Thompson’s death due to being distracted by an episode of The Big Bang Theory playing on his phone in November 2021, Judge Sophia Beckett ruled in June.

The 22-year-old earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death over the crash in the northwest Sydney suburb of Llandillo.

Penrith District Court heard a Cellebrite phone report found Camilleri connected his phone to his Bluetooth outlet before leaving work on the morning of the crash and streamed Netflix for 11 minutes before Ms Thomson was instantly killed at 7.27am.

Bede Polding Teacher, Gemma Thompson, was remembered as kind and empathetic.

Despite pleading guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death, his defence te...
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