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Abe Maddison

Hit-run sentence 'won't heal pain' for top cop's family

Dhirren Randhawa has avoided going to jail over a hit-run crash that caused Charlie Stevens' death. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

A young hit-run driver has avoided going to jail over a crash that killed Charlie Stevens but his police commissioner father agrees with the sentencing judge that nothing will heal his family's pain.

Dhirren Singh Randhawa, 19, from Encounter Bay, stood silently in the dock as he was sentenced on Tuesday in the SA District Court to one year, one month and seven days in jail, with a non-parole period of seven months.

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