A leaked private photo has emerged of a young Auckland woman, who received home detention for a drunken hit-and-run death, posing with a glass of wine the day before delivering a tearful apology at her sentencing hearing when a court heard she was now abstinent from alcohol.
Another photo shared to her “close friends” on Instagram shows the woman, Helena Cribb, posing with her ankle bracelet monitor following the hearing where she received eight months’ home detention after admitting a driving charge relating to her role in the death of Jason Collins.
She hit Collins while driving home drunk to the North Shore from a Christmas party for an advertising agency last year and did not stop, later telling police she thought she’d gone over a pothole. Collins was understood to be lying on or near the road at the time.
Her lawyer Adam Holland told the Herald the photo with the wine glass shows her drinking wine the day …