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The widow of a policeman killed by a drunk and high-on-ice driver has urged her husband's killer to do "one good thing in his life", after he was jailed for 10 years over the death.
The sentencing judge said Reid displayed "a complete lack of regard" for those at risk from his actions Jesse Reid, 23, was speeding and had consumed alcohol and methamphetamine in the hours before he struck veteran police officer Victor Kostiuk on the Princes Highway near Orbost in East Gippsland.
He had also taken valium just before he hit the 59-year-old, who was taking part in a charity motorbike ride in September last year.
County Court Judge Trevor Wraight said Reid would have been incapable of proper control of his vehicle.
"You showed a complete lack of regard for who may have been at risk from your conduct," Judge Wraight said in sentencing this morning.
