A drink-driver who was jailed for three years and four months for causing the death of a teenager has been given his driving licence back.
Chef Adam Harazim, 32, was jailed in August 2008 for causing the death of 16-year-old Samantha Forrest in Perth in February that year.
He was sent to prison after the court heard how he lost control of his vehicle at a roundabout on the town’s Dunkeld Road and was sent careering into a wall.
Harazim, also of Perth, had earlier agreed to give Samantha and her two friends a lift.
She had met the Polish national and persuaded him to take her and her friends in his car.
After failing to negotiate a round-about properly, Harazim’s car smashed into a wall, overturned and ended up in the middle of the road.
Miss Forrest, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other passengers survived the collision.
Harazim had pleaded guilty to a charge of causing death by careless driving while more than double the drink-drive limit.
He was jailed and banned from driving for eight years at the High Court in Aberdeen.
On Thursday, at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh, judge Lord Bracadale decided to give Harazim his licence back.
Harazim had applied to the court to be given it back.
The judge did so because of Harazim’s future job prospects and because the application was made late into his disqualification.
Lord Bracadale ordered Harazim to resit his driving test as a condition of regaining his licence.