123mph speeding crash: "Insulting" prison sentence

[Busaholic]

Any rules are voluntary, just that there are consequences if you are caught breaking them.

With AI there's a chance that a car might not be able to be driven by someone not allowed to in the future, at least in theory.

 

[C J Snarzell]

Very interesting, I admit my 'research' was a while ago. I agree 80 years is a life time ban: the term has to be finite. Do you know whether an appeal was lodged and, if so, were any changes made?

Busaholic

I couldn't possibly tell you if an appeal was made. There was another case I read about a while ago where the male offender had been potted about four times for drink driving over X number of years and had a long history of other driving offences. He was eventually given a life time ban for killing someone in a smash (as well as jail time). I tried to look for the article to add to the link but couldn't find it.

The main problem with bans, of course, is that they are in a sense voluntary. If the driver has the keys, there's nothing to stop anyone taking off and causing mayhem, regardless of the legality of being behind the wheel.

You'd like to think so. I would say the small proportion of those who do this are perhaps people who have serious drug & alcohol problems who are beyond all help from being stopped from getting behind the wheel (if they are banned) or those you could class as 'criminals' who use lease vehicles from 'iffy' companies.

CJ

 

[A0]

Do you read the Daily Mail by any chance? You are completely ill informed.

I assume you missed the irony of your comment when the OP used The Guardian as the news link in their post.......

 

[GusB]

I assume you missed the irony of your comment when the OP used The Guardian as the news link in their post.......

The OP didn't actually provide any link at all. You'll see that the post has been edited.

 

[A0]

The OP didn't actually provide any link at all. You'll see that the post has been edited.

Erm, no - post 1 has a link to the Guardian news article.

Specifically this article https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...woman-in-123mph-m66-crash-jailed-for-12-years

Which say's

Rose Gibson-Harper, a solicitor representing Jules-Hough’s family, severely criticised the sentence.

“Today’s 12-year sentence is insulting and an injustice to the catastrophic injuries little Tobias sustained, and the life sentence Mrs Hough’s family were needlessly handed following her and her unborn daughter’s death due to an act of sheer stupidity,” she said.

“Last year, judges were given the power to hand down greater sentences to those convicted of death by dangerous driving – previously, the maximum tariff was 14 years but it was increased to life imprisonment.

 

[66701GBRF]

Erm, no - post 1 has a link to the Guardian news article.

The link was not provided at the time of the Daily Mail comment.