A survivor of a horrific bus crash which claimed 10 lives and injured 25 has told a court how he lost the love of his life and would never forgive the driver. Nick Dinakis had been returning on the bus to Singleton with partner Darcy Bulman after a wedding in the Hunter Valley, NSW when Brett Button’s dangerous driving caused the bus to roll on its side . Reading from a statement on Monday during an expected three-day sentence hearing for Button, Dinakis said he was a broken man and nothing he was about to say would remotely represent what had happened to him.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “You’ve broken me physically, you’ve scarred my body, and worst of all you’ve broken my heart and mind,” Dinakis told Button. “On June 11 last year, not only did you leave me close to death and in ICU with a broken neck, glass and debris throughout my face like shrapnel, and with a brain injury I am likely to never recover from, you ruined my career, my ability to work at the top of my game.” Dinakis said he had spent four months in a neck brace relying on others for help and the ripple effect of Button’s “selfish and dangerous actions” had been enormous.
He said the worst part had been how Button had killed his partner and best friend, Darcy Bulman. The couple had met at high school and she was, and always would be, his unconditional love. “She loved me more than anyone other than my own mother.
She was my forever person,” Dinakis said. He had b.