Edward Wong/South China Morning PostA senior expatriate banker who rammed his Ferrari into a security guard in a fatal accident last year was yesterday jailed for 21 months and suspended from driving for five years after his claims of mechanical failure were rejected. The District Court found Robert Ebert, Deutsche Bank’s former head of equities for Asia Pacific, guilty of dangerous driving causing death after his black Ferrari 458 Spider hit Ku Lap-chi, 53, on June 9 last year at the Waterfront car park in Kowloon Station. The offence was punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment. Judge Amanda Woodcock stressed it was a difficult sentence to pass as Ebert was not a criminal, but the crash had caused death and great deal of distress. It was “a significant fall from grace”, she added, for Ebert, 49, to suffer a serious and momentary error of judgment when he had an excellent driving record and a clear criminal record. Tweet Embed:https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/790396013240422400Ex-Deutsche Bank equities head(Asia Pacific) Robert Ebert convicted of dangerous driving causing security guard's death with Ferrari in HK pic.twitter.com/05Xmr8ztrk Mitigation letters presented the 32-year driver as an upstanding, honest, and charitable man who showed deep remorse. But the judge said the sentence was aggravated by his excessive speed as he had switched his car to race mode and lost control. Ebert was heading to his office at the International Commerce Centre on the day of the accident when his Ferrari sped more than three times the legal limit before hitting a curb as he was about to make a turn. A driver said he saw the car flying into the car park, hitting the railing, splitting water barriers and running into Ku, who died hours later. Ebert did not deny he was speeding but he blamed the accident on “a catastrophic failure of the brakes”. Edward Wong/South China Morning Post Prosecutors, however, argued the Ferrari showed no sign of braking problems in its journey from Ebert’s home on The Peak.
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