A man whose pursuit of a teenage trio who stole his car led to the deaths of two youths will have to wait several more weeks to learn his fate after his sentencing was delayed.
Mazen Kabbara was due to be sentenced in Mt Druitt Local Court in Sydney on Wednesday after pleading guilty to two counts of negligent driving occasioning death and lone counts of negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and driving with an illicit drug present.
According to court documents, the 39-year-old and his wife Mirjana were at their Edmondson Park home about 4am on November 1, 2020 when they woke to discover their family’s Holden Commodore was being driven away.
While his wife contacted police to report the theft, Kabbara took matters into his own hands and went after the thieves in another car he owned.
For 16 kilometres Kabbara followed three teens in the stolen car as they led him on a high speed across Western Sydney.
As he tried to follow the teens, court documents state a Toyota Camry which was heard doing burnouts outside Kabbara’s home, unsuccessfully tried to intercept Kabbara.
At one point during the pursuit the teens threw objects out the window at Kabbara in the other car which was seen about 1.5 metres behind the stolen car.
When the 17-year-old driver of the stolen car slammed on the brakes, the front of the car Kabbara was driving collided with the rear of the stolen car.
The pursuit ended when the stolen car crashed into a power pole at the intersection of Cowpasture Road and Horsley Drive.
Seconds before the crash, court documents state the teens were doing more than 150km/h in a 60 zone.
The 17-year-old driver and a 15-year-old passenger in the back seat were ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene while a second 17-year-old was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
A police analysis of the wreckage found they were not wearing seatbelts.
After the crash Kabbara was tested and found to have been driving with traces of THC present in his body, however court documents state police did not believe it influenced his driving ability in a major way.
Despite initially vowing to fight the charges laid against him, Kabbara pleaded guilty to a string of offences in October 2021.
He did not appear in court on Wednesday when it was revealed that Magistrate George Breton had adjourned the sentencing proceedings to February 24.
No reason was given for the adjournment.
Kabbara remains out on bail.
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