Our hearts are going out to the Raiba family this week, after learning of their devastating ordeal following a horrific car crash last October.
The family were in court in Northampton, England, this week for the sentencing of Andrew Nay, who ploughed his 4x4 jeep into their car during what has been described as a ‘road rage chase’.
The crash – caused when Nay pulled out across a junction while ‘chasing’ a woman in a people-carrier – left six-year-old and eight-year-old sisters Katrina and Karlina Raiba paralysed for life.
Presiding over Northampton Crown Court this week, Judge Adrienne Lucking QC condemned Nay for the ‘bullying’ behaviour that led to the crash, which transformed the Raiba family’s life ‘200%’. She added that no sentence would ever ‘feel like enough’ for the family in the midst of their devastation.
In the end, Judge Lucking sentenced Nay- who said he was “truly remorseful” – to four-and-a-half years in prison.
In a statement released after the judgment was handed down, the family said: “We will never be able to forgive [Nay]. Every day [the girls] ask 'when will we start feeling our legs again?' They think it's going to get better, and it's too hard to tell them."
We are thinking of the Raiba family, and we’re wishing their little girls all the best.
