- Police have charged a 63-year-old man over the fatal hit and run death
A 63-year-old real estate guru has been charged over an alleged hit and run crash that killed a a young lawyer in Sydney.
Mitch East, 28, was found with critical head and chest injuries by a passerby in Fletcher Street in Tamarama, in the city’s east, just after 4am on Sunday.
The young lawyer, who was educated at Harvard Law School, is understood to have been dropped off by an Uber just moments before he was struck.
Following extensive police inquiries, Zisi Kokotatsios handed himself into Granville Police Station just after 11am on Friday.
He was charged with four offences, including negligent driving occasioning death, dangerous driving occasioning death, failing to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing death, and driving using a mobile phone.
On Friday, Kokotatsios’ former colleague Marcel Kellerman told Daily Mail Australia their professional relationship ended a year ago, and he couldn’t be happier.
Mitch East, 28, was found with critical head and chest injuries by a passerby in Fletcher Street, in Tamarama, just after 4am on Sunday
Police were searching for the driver of a white Subaru Outback which was spotted on CCTV travelling on Fletcher Street around the time of the crash
‘I finished up working with him over a year ago,’ Mr Kellerman said.
‘Not being in business with him is the best thing to have happened to me.’
Kokotatsios was a refused bail to appear at Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday morning.
Following the alleged hit-and-run, police were searching for the driver of a white Subaru Outback which was spotted in the area on CCTV about the same time as the crash.
At the time, NSW Police inspector Jason Hogan urged the driver to come forward.
‘It is a cowardly act to drive away after colliding with another human,’ he told 7News.
‘They really need to attend their local police station before we knock on their door.’
Officers are pictured processing the crime scene in Tamarama on Sunday after the alleged hit-and-run
