The family of a Sydney schoolgirl who was run over while waiting for a bus in Sydney's south say their lives will never be the same without their precious daughter.
The driver, Puipuimaota Galuvao, 28, wiped away tears as the victim's father asked how she could sleep at night after killing his "innocent daughter".
"We cannot walk past the street where you took away our daughter," Nikul Patel told an emotional sentencing hearing at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Monday.
Galuvao is the half-sister of former New Zealand rugby league star Joe Galuvao.
The Mitsubishi Challenger, which demolished half the shop, also injured employee Suzanne Ferguson and trapped 84-year-old customer Frederick Cook.
Galuvao, her female passenger and two children in the four-wheel-drive escaped relatively unscathed.
Galuvao was charged with several driving offences including dangerous driving occasioning death and driving without a licence.
She pleaded guilty to two charges including dangerous driving occasioning death and dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm when she appeared in Downing Centre Court on May 19 last year.
Joe Galuvao apologised to Aneri's family at a court appearance in October 2014.
"To the Patel family, not a day goes by that we do not think about your family or what your family is going through," he said.
"The pain, grief and loss of your beloved Aneri. We know that nothing we can say will ease your pain. We know that your lives will be changed forever."
Galuvao will be sentenced on March 18.
