AN Indonesian national who caused the death of a friend when she failed to stop at a Stop sign in Merbein will spend almost a year in jail before being eligible for parole.

Thirty-one-year-old Mella Christy had been sight-seeing on a day off from seasonal work with friend Jiwon Lee, 24, when she drove through the Fifth Street and Main Avenue intersection on the afternoon of April 4 last year and ...