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A hit-and-run driver who received a four-year sentence after being found guilty of running down a pedestrian in his red sports car has had his prison sentence cut in half by Ontario’s highest court.

Vlad Precup received the prison time in March 2015 following his second trial for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of the collision that killed Mitchell Anderson at the corner of Colonel By Drive and Rideau Street in July 2008.

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But in a decision released on Friday, the Ontario Court of Appeal cut that sentence down to two years. The appeal judges found that the judge who sentenced him following his retrial failed to consider whether his original two-year sentence was unfit before giving him the additional prison time. Since the facts in the case were essentially the same as in the first trial, the appeal court found the original sentence was appropriate and reduced the amount of time Precup will have to serve.