[News] Just 3 years for killing a boy through dangerous driving

Weststander · Mar 31, 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-56591632

With good behaviour she’ll be out in 18 months.

A pathetically short sentence, I thought causing death by dangerous driving now yielded a long sentence? This was also a hit’n’run. Wiping out the poor kid’s life, his family will never recover.

Shropshire Seagull · Mar 31, 2021

If the judge had given her a longer sentence she may have played the racist card, so judge went soft on her to avoid any further BLM tension .... maybe?

1066familyman · Mar 31, 2021

Shropshire Seagull said:
If the judge had given her a longer sentence she may have played the racist card, so judge went soft on her to avoid any further BLM tension .... maybe?

Complete bullshit!, and you probably know it.

Have a look around at sentences for causing death by dangerous driving. The results will shock you. As will all other driving related sentencing.

It's a car culture dictating these sentences. Not race.

It's you that's playing the race card here.

Hampster Gull · Mar 31, 2021

Should be banned for life (outcome deserves it), and I would have thought a longer sentence

GT49er · Mar 31, 2021

Shropshire Seagull said:
If the judge had given her a longer sentence she may have played the racist card, so judge went soft on her to avoid any further BLM tension .... maybe?

Hard to argue that isn't a possibility. Only a possibility though - no more than that.

Stat Brother · Mar 31, 2021

3 years - finally sentencing is going up.

2 cases last week had no jail time at all.

Eeyore · Mar 31, 2021

Shropshire Seagull said:
If the judge had given her a longer sentence she may have played the racist card, so judge went soft on her to avoid any further BLM tension .... maybe?

That sort of post should get you a promotion to Argus Comments.

Blue3 · Mar 31, 2021

Worthing herald was reporting about the sentencing of a man from Worthing who hit and killed a young father of two, he was arrested but denied any involvement released on bail and went into hiding missing his court date he was found in Crawley charged he then changed his plea to guilty Killing a man through careless driving while not having a driving licence or insurance his sentence 18 months in prison and 3 year driving ban!!!!!!!!!!

Cheshire Cat · Mar 31, 2021

Shropshire Seagull said:
If the judge had given her a longer sentence she may have played the racist card, so judge went soft on her to avoid any further BLM tension .... maybe?

Rubbish

1066familyman · Mar 31, 2021

GT49er said:
Hard to argue that isn't a possibility. Only a possibility though - no more than that.

Hard to argue against for a closet racist who's done fvck all research into the facts, yes.

GT49er · Mar 31, 2021

Stat Brother said:
3 years - finally sentencing is going up.

Fair enough if that is the case.

Stat Brother said:
2 cases last week had no jail time at all.

Was that for death by dangerous driving or death by careless driving? Agree both are serious, because someone has ended up being dead, but careless driving could just be a momentary error or loss of concentration; still an offence, worthy of punishment, but dangerous driving is a different thing altogether.

1066familyman · Mar 31, 2021

Blue3 said:
Worthing herald was reporting about the sentencing of a man from Worthing who hit and killed a young father of two, he was arrested but denied any involvement released on bail and went into hiding missing his court date he was found in Crawley charged he then changed his plea to guilty Killing a man through careless driving while not having a driving licence or insurance his sentence 18 months in prison and 3 year driving ban!!!!!!!!!!

And you will find that is very much more the norm rather than the exception, regardless of the race or gender of the defendant.

It's a car culture led sentencing policy. It really is sadly as simple as that.

1066familyman · Mar 31, 2021

In 2017 ministers promised, following wide ranging consultation, that they would be increasing the maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving from 14 years to life.

It's now 2021. Guess what the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is today?

Deportivo Seagull · Mar 31, 2021

GT49er said:
Hard to argue that isn't a possibility. Only a possibility though - no more than that.

Is it ****. Race has **** all to do with this, it’s more of a case that courts appear loathed to push for maximum sentences.

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drew · Mar 31, 2021

Probably the guilty plea meant a reduction of the sentence by up to a third.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/causing-death-by-dangerous-driving/

Hopefully someone involved might get the sentence referred.

The Rattler · Mar 31, 2021

Weststander said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-56591632

With good behaviour she’ll be out in 18 months.

A pathetically short sentence, I thought causing death by dangerous driving now yielded a long sentence? This was also a hit’n’run. Wiping out the poor kid’s life, his family will never recover.

On the plus side, that’s only 18 months for the family to wait for appropriate revenge.

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Weststander · Mar 31, 2021

drew said:
Probably the guilty plea meant a reduction of the sentence by up to a third.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/causing-death-by-dangerous-driving/

Hopefully someone involved might get the sentence referred.

I hope family/police ask the Attorney General to review this sentence.

GT49er · Mar 31, 2021

1066familyman said:
Hard to argue against for a closet racist who's done fvck all research into the facts, yes.

Oh wow! A supersuperiorracisthunter pontificates! F*** off - a lot of the rest of us oppose racism too you know.

.............. and just how much do you know about racial tensions (both ways) in parts of Birmingham? When were you last there?

Wrong-Direction · Mar 31, 2021

Really is not the police people should be pissed at, its the rotten at the core judges!

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Weststander · Mar 31, 2021

1066familyman said:
In 2017 ministers promised, following wide ranging consultation, that they would be increasing the maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving from 14 years to life.

It's now 2021. Guess what the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is today?

To me, it’s not just maximums, as they’re rarely given anyway.

1. The base sentence for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving needs to be significant.

2. Judges, or the sentencing guidelines, should give less scope for hugely reducing sentences through a whole host of mitigations just now.

The lives of victims lost forever to disgraceful driving, mean more imho than 18 months inside.

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