A DANCE teacher has been sentenced after a “prank gone wrong” left her 18-year-old friend with a severe brain injury.
The young woman fell out of the boot of Evie Robinson’s car after she suddenly accelerated.
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Evie Robinson left her friend with a catastrophic brain injury in car boot ‘prank gone wrong’ Credit: Linkedin/ Evie Robinson
Evie Robinson, 20, outside Nottingham Crown Court ahead of sentence for causing serious injury through careless driving Credit: BPM
The victim was sat with another friend in the boot of Robinson’s Audi A1 as the then 19-year-old drove across a car park in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire last August.
Both women fell out the car and one was left with severe head injuries that caused her to be put into a coma for six weeks.
Before the smash, the teenage victim was sat on the roof of another car while it was driven forwards and backwards, the court heard.
This “set the scene for a prank that had gone seriously wrong”.
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Judge Robert Egbuna handed Robinson a two-year suspended sentence today.
He said: “You did not set out, nor did any of your friends who ended up in the boot of your car, contemplate the actions that would cause life-threatening injuries that happened when the tragic events unfolded.”
The court heard a victim impact statement from the teen’s mother who said the “prank” cost her daughter her “future and dignity”.
The victim, said to be an aspiring vet, was previously “so full of life, filled with boundless energy“.
She is now unable to drive, suffers mood changes and seizures and has had her education set back, her mother told the court.
She added: “She lost her independence, her dignity and the future she worked so hard for.
“(She) had so many hopes and dreams aspiring for a career in veterinary medicine.
“But 139 days after her 18th birthday, she was robbed of her future.”
“Single-handed, you have broken my daughter.”
Amelia Trem, prosecuting, said the crash on August 5 last year took place in a car park between the Odeon Cinema and Nando’s restaurant in Park Lane.
She told the court that Robinson, the victim and other friends were socialising when the victim suggested she got into the boot of the Audi with a second friend.
Another young woman climbed into the passenger seat as Robinson drove off and told her “slow down Evie, you are going too fast,” the court heard.
Ms Trem added: “Almost immediately [one girl in the boot] fell onto her backside and hit her head but [the victim] fell face first and was lying on the ground not moving.
“At first they thought she was playing or joking, but they became increasingly concerned and [a boy at the scene] rang for an ambulance.”
The young woman was raced to King’s Mill Hospital where doctors found a 5mm bleed to her head.
She was then in an induced coma for six weeks, the barrister added.
Robinson later pleaded guilty to causing serious injury through dangerous driving.
Lucky Thandi, defending, highlighted 16 character references for Robinson and that she has been left “riddled with guilt” after the incident.
She continued: “The day in question had been like any other for her and her friends, and there had been no intention for that night to end in the way it did.”
As part of her sentence, Robinson will attend 150 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation sessions.
