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A backpacker from Redditch has been sentenced to four years in prison after a fatal e-scooter crash in Australia left a dad-of-two dead.

Backpacker Alicia Kemp from Redditch , Worcestershire , was sentenced in the Perth District Court, Western Australia, on Friday, December 12, for dangerous driving causing death while intoxicated.

The 25-year-old over the Australian legal limit when she hit Thanh Phan in Perth on May 31. She was 24 at the time of the incident.

Phan died in hospital days later after suffering a brain bleed.

Psychology graduate was said to have been carrying a passenger, 26, who suffered a broken nose and fractured skull.

Kemp's sentence was backdated to June 2025 for time served with a non-parole period of two years.

Her driver’s licence has been sus

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