The man jailed after a hit-and-run left a 24-year-old fighting for his life has had four months shaved off his sentence.
In April, Michael Robert Pollard, 61, was sentenced to two years and seven months' imprisonment for dangerous driving causing injury after a car he was driving struck and seriously injured Jesse Minnell outside Whanganui's Red Lion Inn in 2016.
But that sentence has been quashed by the Court of Appeal and replaced with a sentence of two years and three months in a decision released this week.
In the early hours of October 22, 2016, Pollard was driving slowly through the group when someone slapped the side of his car.
Pollard did a U-turn and drove back towards the crowd with heavy acceleration. Minnell was knocked into the air by the force of the blow from the car and landed on his head.