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Alicia Kemp, the 24-year-old who is accused of killing beloved dad Thanh Phan while allegedly riding an e-scooter in Perth’s CBD drunk and dangerously, has appeared in court from prison.
Kemp is alleged to have spent the afternoon drinking with a friend when the pair hired an e-scooter and allegedly rode tandem along footpaths before hitting Phan just after 8.30pm on May 31.
The force of the impact caused Phan to fall forward and hit his head. He died from a brain bleed three days later.
British backpacker Alicia Kemp is accused of riding an e-scooter while drunk before fatally crashing into a pedestrian in Perth’s CBD.Credit: TikTok
Kemp’s 26-year-old friend, who had allegedly been evicted from a bar due to intoxication before the crash, was riding on the back of the scooter and suffered a fractured skull and broken nose.
Kemp was initially charged with two charges of dangerous driving occasioning bodily harm but later had one of the charges upgraded to dangerous driving causing death after 51-year-old Phan died.
Days later, Kemp applied for bail but was refused on the grounds that she was a flight risk with no ties to WA.
Kemp appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday via video link from Melaleuca Prison, with her matter adjourned to give her lawyer and prosecutors “time for negotiations”.
Before her appearance, WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch spoke with Radio 6PR about the issue with e-scooter laws in the state and told waiting media he welcomed a state government committee to examine e-scooters.
“What that will allow, and obviously I will represent WA Police, it will allow experts, members of the community interest groups, to provide advice to government on what we should do with e-scooters in Western Australia,” he said.
“I think that’s an appropriate way to get the full spectrum of advice, so government can make a policy decision on escorts going forward.”
Kemp, who was travelling the world as part of a gap year after studying psychology and criminology at university in the UK, was remanded in custody and will be back before the courts on August 11.
