The High Court has rejected an application to hear an appeal from Sydney man Samuel Davidson who was drunk and high on drugs when he lost control of his ute and drove into a group of seven children, killing four.
Davidson was sentenced to 28 years in jail, which was reduced on appeal, but another bid to further reduce his time in jail with an appeal to the High Court has today failed.
Siblings Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 9, and their cousin, Veronique Sakr, 11, died in February 2020 when Davidson mounted a kerb in his ute, hitting them.
Three other children were injured.
On the day of the incident, in Oatlands in Sydney's west, Davidson had been at home drinking and consuming cocaine and MDMA.
He was also found to have been speeding.
In April 2021, Davidson was sentenced to 28 years behind bars with a non-parole period of 21 years.
Last year, Davidson appealed his sentence, arguing it was manifestly excessive, which was accepted by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
His sentence was reduced to 20 years, with a non-parole period of 15 years.
In the appeal judgement, Justice Paul Brereton said there had to be regard for '"the violation of each victim, but also to the circumstance that they were the result of but a single course of criminal conduct".
Today, the High Court denied Davidson's further application to review the way the court had worked out his sentence.
In making its decision, the High Court said the application could not succeed and raised no matters of importance.
