A British backpacker is facing up to 20 years in an Australian jail after being charged with killing a pedestrian she hit while riding an e-scooter.

Alicia Kemp, 24, is alleged to have been three times the legal alcohol limit when she collided with Thanh Phan, a 51-year-old engineer said to have been standing on a footpath.

Mr Phan, a father of two, had been waiting to cross the road in Perth’s central business district when Ms Kemp, who had a passenger on the e-scooter, struck him on May 3.

Mr Phan died in hospital from brain injuries.The passenger, understood to be a 26-year-old friend of Ms Kemp, suffered a fractured skull and a broken nose.

Ms Kemp, a psychology graduate from Redditch, Worcs, was denied bail when she appeared in court in Perth charged with dangerous driving occasio

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