The family and friends of the three victims of a horrific crash in South Australia have expressed their forgiveness toward the Italian tourist who was driving.
In November of last year, at Everard Central in Blythe, the car driven by Gabriele Cairo collided with the vehicle driven by John and Cynthia Clark, killing them and their daughter Jackie.
As the judge considers the sentencing for the foreign national, who is stranded here on the other side of the globe, friends of the Clark family express their desire to avoid Cairo’s incarceration.
In November of last year, at Everard Central in Blythe, the car driven by Gabriele Cairo collided with the vehicle driven by John and Cynthia Clark, killing them and their daughter Jackie.
“In this case, he didn’t mean to do it and we all agree with that,” said Jon Reinke, a friend of the Clark family.
It would be a very other story if he was an evildoer; then you could hurl everything at him.
“But that’s not the way it is.”
When the plane went down, Gabriele Cairo was only starting her honeymoon.
The crash injured the 29-year-old Italian tourist’s new wife, and he pled guilty.
After traveling throughout Australia, Cairo claimed he was at a loss as to why he failed to notice the give-way sign.
His attorney, Michael Woods, stated that Cairo was “extremely remorseful” and had the Clark family and their relatives in mind at all times.
According to the judge, Cairo was a decent human being and a good man who, because to a concentration error, tragically killed three people.
A year has passed since the crash, and the couple’s visas are about to expire before Cairo is convicted, leaving them stuck in Australia.
If he ends up in prison, his wife will probably have no choice but to go back to Italy alone.
The pair will need to secure housing if he is ordered to serve home detention.
So that they can both return home, Cairo’s lawyer is requesting a suspended sentence.
“In our opinion, we don’t think he should go to jail, we can’t see the point of that – their lives have changed like ours,” said Reinke.
