Nasty piece of work.
MadammeMarie
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That's what this guy seems to be, according to this report! Killed a cyclist - another human being - and apparently, didn't show remorse or anything!
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/driver-caught-speeding-twice-after-killing-cyclist-14742950.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/driver-caught-speeding-twice-after-killing-cyclist-14742950.html
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Also reported on BBC News, interested to see he got 5 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8587403.stm
David McCall was a local legend, a real loss to the cycling world in Northern Ireland.
A touching tribute to him here:
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5 years, fair enough.
Some judges should take example...FCN 4(?) (Commuter - Genesis Croix de Fer)
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We're still talking about manslaughter here, not murder.
I'm pretty sure if such sentences were dished out a little bit more often it would have an impact on the way peoples drive around cyclists.FCN 4(?) (Commuter - Genesis Croix de Fer)
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5 years!!!!! He should have got at least 10 years and been banned from driving for life. He was an accident waiting to happen to kill some one. Anyway a knee capping would have been much more appropriate ............Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
Think how stupid the average person is.......
half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.0 -
Actually, I think given the lack of intent 5 years is probably about right. It's a properly stiff sentence and sends a pretty clear message0
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jedster wrote:Actually, I think given the lack of intent 5 years is probably about right. It's a properly stiff sentence and sends a pretty clear message
i agree.
for the average person i.e. not hardened criminals....5 years in prison is a big sentence.Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
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“He has no relatives or family in Northern Ireland so his prison sentence will be all the more difficult because he will have limited contact with his family,”
What a shame!
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is the driving ban concurrent with the prison sentance?0
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Isn't the easiest way to get away with killing someone to knock them off their bike!? :roll:
Its pretty disgusting really IMHO any road death should be treated as manslaughter and the appropriate penalties imposed. Whilst 5 years does seem like a scary sentance for a normal law abiding citizen (it would scare me silly!) 5 years locked in a box does not really tally imho wiht taking a life - regardless of how that life was extinguished and whether there was intent or not.
A sad state of affairs.....0 -
Number of times I've been in a group and we've had someone moron race to overtake and they've missed by <30cm.... :evil:'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze....0
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OldSkoolKona wrote:is the driving ban concurrent with the prison sentance?
Unfortunately it is. And it's like that in most cases. So the person walks out of prison straight into his/her car...0