Driver pleads guilty to manslaughter over Kwinana Freeway crash that killed Abbey Rose Sheriff in Perth

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Driver pleads guilty to manslaughter over Kwinana Freeway crash that killed Abbey Rose Sheriff in Perth
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A Perth woman has admitted she was high on a cocktail of drugs and driving more than 140km/h when she hit and killed 21-year-old Abbey Rose Sheriff on the Kwinana Freeway. Evie Butterworth, 30, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the WA Supreme Court on Wednesday morning.

Evie Butterworth pleads guilty over fatal Kwinana Freeway crash. Her Nissan Maxima smashed into Sheriff’s Nissan X-trail near Baldivis in the city’s southern suburbs just before midnight on January 11, 2023. Speaking outside court, Julie Sheriff said hearing her daughter’s killer plead guilty offered the family some relief. “It’s taken 15 months ... to finally know that we will get justice for Abbey,” she said. “I hope she’s watching that we fought all the way.

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