Drink driver Tere Moekore jailed for Auckland hit-and-run that killed Papatoetoe High School student Kaea Matau [Video]

• Tere Moekore was sentenced to three years and two months in prison for killing 14-year-old Kaea Conan Matau while drink driving and speeding. 
• The 30-year-old, who didn’t stop, still seems to show little remorse, the judge noted this week. 
• Matau was a ‘gentle giant’ who played seven instruments and had enormous potential, mourners recalled. 

A woman on a learner’s permit who was four times the legal limit for alcohol and travelling nearly twice the speed limit when she killed a 14-year-old pedestrian stood stone-faced in court as the boy’s family sobbed, sang and sometimes howled while trying, in vain it seemed, to get across the magnitude of what she had done. 

“I struggle to sleep – the bloody nightmares!” Kaea Conan Matau’s father yelled during a victim impact statement, his pained voice booming enough to be heard outside the Manukau District courtroom where Ōtara housekeeper Tere Moekore stood in the …