'Vulnerable' ex-girlfriend Mariah Powell spared further jail time for helping Darren Butler avoid police over fatal fuel tanker crash

By Shannon Tonkin
Updated August 28 2020 - 3:31pm, first published 3:00pm
Guilty: Mariah Shea Powell (left) has admitted helping Darren Butler avoid police capture.
Guilty: Mariah Shea Powell (left) has admitted helping Darren Butler avoid police capture.

An aspiring beautician refused bail for six months on allegations she helped an Illawarra man avoid police capture on a murder charge will not spend any more time behind bars, after a judge found it would be "unnecessarily cruel" to return her to custody.

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