A widower whose wife and unborn twins were killed when a drunk driver crashed into their car has questioned in court who was really being punished.
Bronko Hoang was taken to hospital in a critical condition in September 2018 after Richard Moananu was driving on an expired licence more than 45 km/h over the speed limit, and veered onto the wrong side of the road in Orchard Hills, western Sydney.
Moananu, now 31, plead guilty to two counts of manslaughter and one count of aggravated driving causing grievous bodily harm on Thursday in the Penrith District Court, and asked Judge Mark Buscombe to take a number of other matters into account.
Mr Hoang, who awoke from a coma in hospital, recalled watching a video of his wife carried in a coffin and buried two metres deep in the ground.
"Today I question who is being punished, while you sit behind bars the rest of my family and me are in the same boat," Mr Hoang said.
"The result of your actions make a horror movie seem like child's play," he said.
"You decided to be judge, jury and executioner, decided to play god....the end result... you had to take people's happiness, hope and future away."
After saying he will never have a memory of holding his newborn twins, he offered Moananu an "olive branch" to help him with his troubles.
"After this is over I want to sit down with you and get to know your story," he said.
Hoang's heavily pregnant wife Katherine was killed from the collision along with a 17-year-old learner driver.
Ms Hoang's children were due to be born the following week, the court heard.
Moananu gave evidence during his sentence hearing on Thursday about growing up in New Zealand in a broken home with alcoholic parents who had gambling addictions, and a father who brutally bashed his wife and children.
On the day of the collision Moananu had spent the afternoon "drinking for hours" at a pub while attempting to win money on the pokies after rain prevented days of him working as a brick labourer.
His last memory was walking into a pub in St Mary's and drinking to "calm his nerves".
He never saw his drinking or gambling as a problem "until it was too late".
Judge Buscombe said describing the catastrophe of Moananu's actions as a tragedy did not do the incident justice.
Moananu is due to be sentenced on November 5.
