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Irish farm worker Mark Doughty sentenced for fatal drink driving crash in south-west Victoria

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Irish farm worker Mark Doughty has been sentenced to eight years and two months in prison. The 26-year-old failed to stop at a stop sign on a country road in Cobden on June 5, 2022, causing a collision with a car driven by a female bartender who had served him alcohol earlier that night. His work mate and fellow Irish national Max Boggs, 18, was in the passenger seat and died at the scene. Judge Kevin Doyle said Doughty's guilty plea indicated genuine remorse.

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The Standard broke the news in Warrnambool, Australia on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
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