A widow yesterday hit out at a 2.5-year jail term handed to the driver of a bus that overturned, killing her husband and four other passengers.
District Court Judge Stephen Chow Siu-hung said the term was sufficient punishment for Sum Wing-yiu, 32, who was convicted of causing death by reckless driving. He had pleaded not guilty.
He was banned from driving for four years and must pass a test before taking to the road again.
Five of the 62 passengers on the double-decker Citybus on Route 118 were killed and the rest injured when it skidded and overturned on the Tonnochy Road flyover in Wan Chai on January 30 last year.
The widow of Mak Kwong-king, 45, who died 2.5 months after the accident, said: 'This does not do justice to the dead and injured.' She said the minimum sentence for Sum should be five years - the maximum laid down by law.
Defence counsel Peter Wan Wah-shing said Sum and his family had been under 'enormous psychological stress' since the tragedy.