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Court dismisses appeal for kayak accident

A woman who caused the death of a four-year old girl in a kayaking accident at Karuah, won’t spend anymore time behind bars, after a court dismissed an appeal to have her sentence extended.

The woman was drunk when the vessel overturned in June 2021 – and a warning to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers – this story contains the names and images of a person who has died.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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