Tasmanian DPP to be sentenced over fatal car crash
Tasmanian director of public prosecutions Tim Ellis leaves the Hobart Magistrates Court. (AAP) AAP
Tasmania's top prosecutor who has been convicted for his part in a fatal car crash will be sentenced on Tuesday.
Tim Ellis was found guilty of negligent driving causing death after a March 2013 head-on highway smash which killed Launceston woman Natalia Pearn, 27.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, who suffers from sleep apnoea, unsuccessfully appealed the verdict in the Supreme Court, arguing he was asleep at the time of the crash.
After a long-running legal saga, Justice David Harper in early December found Ellis was awake when his Mercedes Benz was on the wrong side of the road and slammed into Ms Pearn's Toyota.
The matter was referred back to the Magistrate's Court, where sentencing is scheduled for 2.15pm (AEDT).
Ellis remains suspended on full pay from his position as one of Tasmania's most senior public servants.
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