A speeding WA driver who admitted killing a 21-year-old woman while high on a cocktail of drugs has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
Evie Butterworth, 30, previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the high-speed Kwinana Fwy crash that claimed the life of Abbey Rose Sheriff just before midnight on January 11, 2023.
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Butterworth’s Nissan Maxima was travelling at close to 150km/h when it smashed into Sheriff’s Nissan X-Trail near Baldivis in Perth’s southern suburbs.
Sheriff’s car came to a stop 94m from the impact zone.
Butterworth was so high on drugs she did not know she had hit a car and killed someone.
She told shocked bystanders at the scene she had been side-swiped and was the victim of a hit-and-run.
Two drivers who stopped at the scene followed a trail of debris to Sheriff’s car. Sadly, she was dead before they could reach her.
Butterworth learned her fate on Thursday when she was sentenced to more than nine years behind bars.
She cried in court as she listened to the Supreme Court Justice read out victim impact statements from Sheriff’s parents.
The fatal crash was not the first time Butterworth had been behind the wheel while high.
It was revealed she was convicted of driving with meth in her system five years earlier.
In the days after the crash, Sheriff’s grieving mother Julie Sheriff told 7NEWS.com.au she had been left broken by the death of her daughter and best friend.
“She couldn’t have been any more perfect — her nature, how she went about life, she was so giving, so selfless, so loving,” Julie said.
“I’m never going to heal from this — I’ll never be the same.
“I’ve lost my baby, my best friend. I’m heartbroken.”
Sheriff’s parents knew something was wrong when the young barista did not message them to say she had reached her friend’s place.
They got in the car and made the tragic discovery when they saw police lights on the freeway.
Sheriff’s parents have donated the wreck of her car to RAC for drive education.
“You hear a lot about drink driving but never about drug use and what it can do to the family’s and people that are left behind without their loved ones,” mum Julie Sheriff said.
Butterworth will be eligible for parole after spending at least seven and a half years behind bars.