A MINI-MOTORBIKE rider has pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run fatality that killed a mother-of-two at Carrum Downs shopping centre in September 2015.
Caleb Jakobsson, now 20 but aged 18 at the time of the tragedy, changed his plea to guilty last week and was further remanded to face court in May on charges of culpable driving causing death and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
Jakobsson’s “monkey bike” is said to have struck Andrea Lehane as she walked on a pedestrian crossing in the car park.
She was thrown up to seven metres when struck at a speed of “between 30kph to 40kph”, according to witnesses, and suffered critical head injuries.
Her life support was turned off two days later in hospital.
