Lord Justice William Davis, sitting in the Court of Appeal with Mr Justice Murray and Judge Shaun Smith KC, said after the crash, Malpass had “acted in a heartless and callous manner – apparently more interested in recovering a valuable watch” rather than the welfare of his partner.
The judge added that days before Malpass was sentenced, he had got back behind the wheel of a car despite being the subject of an interim disqualification.
Lewis Power KC, representing Malpass, said he accepted the case was “most dreadful and distressing”, but the sentence was “not unduly lenient”.
He told the court that since Malpass’s time in prison, reports said he was “immature”, but “now having been incarcerated he accepts being remorseful and express prison is a salutary lesson for decisions he has made”.
In increasing Malpass’s sentence, Lord Justice Davis described the “harrowing effect” of the fatal crash on Ms Woroch’s mother.
He said she had “daily reminders of how her daughter died because, given where she lives, she has to drive past the scene of the collision on a regular basis”.
The judge added: “There was a well-established tendency in the weeks leading up to the collision for him to drive dangerously.
“On two occasions before the incident, he drove in a manner similar to that fatal collision.”
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