A disqualified driver who caught a taxi home and left a young motorcyclist to burn to death after crashing into him has been jailed for just three years.
Santino Bankal, 28, pleaded guilty to failing to help Ashleigh Gason, 21, who died after the motorbike he was riding burst into flames after he collided with a car on the Nepean Highway at Brighton, Victoria, in July last year, Seven News reported.
Bankal did not stay back to help Mr Gason, who was burnt alive after the crash, instead he caught a taxi home, leaving Mr Gason for dead.
He was also on a disqualified license at the time.
Santino Bankal, 28 (pictured), pleaded guilty to failing to help Ashleigh Gason following an accident

Ashleigh Gason, 21 (pictured), was riding a motorbike when it burst into flames after he collided with a car
Appearing in court on Tuesday, Judge Susan Pullen said Bankal, who was already on a community corrections order for other crimes, had no intention of helping Mr Gason and left the scene of the accident ‘for no good reason’.
‘Your failure to render assistance was inhumane, callous and cowardly,’ she said.
During the pre-sentence hearing County Court Judge Susan Pullen said Bankal had ample opportunity to aid Mr Gason.
‘He had the opportunity to do what he should’ve done and he failed to do it, he walked off. Callous in the extreme,’ she said.
Other witnesses rushed to Mr Gason’s aid as he burned while Bankal and his girlfriend hailed a taxi nearby.

Judge Susan Pullen said Bankal had no intention of helping Mr Gason and left the scene of the accident ‘for not good reason’
The court heard he had driven his girlfriend’s unregistered Holden Commodore to a nearby Coles, Aldi and Dan Murphy’s prior to the accident.
The incident occurred shortly afterwards when Bankal merged onto the highway and into the path of Mr Gason who crashed into the side of the car.
Police investigations also found that Mr Gason must have been travelling at least 112kmh in an 80kmh zone, while they do not believe that Bankal was speeding.
Mr Gason’s family said they were heartbroken over the sentencing of ‘a few years’ as they live on without their son forever.
‘The sentence doesn’t fix anything…we have a lifetime of my son gone,’ the victim’s father, Mark Gason, told the publication.
‘He was such an amazing young man, gone too soon,’ the victim’s mother Elizabeth Archer said.
Bankal will be eligible for parole in 21 months.

Mr Gason’s family has been left heartbroken over the sentencing of ‘a few years’ as they live without their son forever