Vic: Man to stand trial for hleping Puneet flee

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2010
Vic: Man to stand trial for hleping Puneet flee

MELBOURNE, April 30 AAP - A South Australian man has been committed to stand trial
for allegedly helping killer driver Puneet Puneet flee Australia.

Sukhcharanjit "Sam" Singh, formerly of the Melbourne suburb of Regent, is alleged to
have provided his Indian passport to Puneet.

In October 2008 Puneet was travelling at 148km/h in a 60km/h zone and had a blood alcohol
concentration of .165 per cent when he lost control and slammed into two pedestrians,
killing one of them.

Puneet pleaded guilty to the culpable driving death of Queensland student Dean Hofstee.

In June last year Puneet fled Australia using Singh's passport, police allege.

On Friday, Magistrate Maurice Gurvich committed Singh to stand trial.

Singh was released on bail and will face the Victorian County Court for a directions
hearing on July 12.

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