Drago
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Hot diggedy! The Criminal Protection Service pulled a blinder for a change.
CPS Says "Yes!!!"
- Thread starter Richard A Thackeray
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Drago
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The law should be much harsher on vehicle criminals. Nevertheless, by the standards of the day, that's not a bad result.
Nice to see a Judge wrist slapping a solicitor. Too many seem to be taking their conduct tips from the tv.
Quite a quick result by today's standards.
Nice to see a Judge wrist slapping a solicitor. Too many seem to be taking their conduct tips from the tv.
Quite a quick result by today's standards.
DaveReading
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They'll be indicting Satan next ...
Levo-Lon
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Archie_tect
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She drove at the man to knock him over - using her car as a weapon seeking to injure someone- driving over someone's foot could be seen as accidental but deliberately driving AT someone is unbelievable!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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Missed that- what was she charged with? [Fingers' crossed!]
Poacher
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Gender assumption there! Read the OP and several other posts.
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Richard A Thackeray
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Pale Rider
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The appeal looks a bit ambitious, but there may be an element of tactics here.
It is one thing for the solicitor to say in the heat of battle they are appealing, but another to actually get the appeal going.
She's been sacked, so the solicitor may be trying to undermine that decision by casting some doubt on the conviction.
Had she made a single contact with the paramedic, I can see - rightly or wrongly - that a court might put that down as an accident.
But to whack the paramedic twice is at least careless, if not dangerous,
Which is another point, she may have offered careless driving.
There is a small risk from the defendant's point of view in an appeal.
All sentencing options are open again, which means the crown court judge - sitting with two magistrates - could rule the sentence as too lenient and increase it to prison.
More likely is the sentence will be left alone, or watered down a tiny bit.
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Archie_tect
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Sorry, I thought the description of the scene said it was a woman driving the car and a man was injured but I re-read and appreciate the sex of the injured person wasn't identifiable, it was their crewmate who was male... well spotted- apologies!
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Poacher
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The sex of the injured person was clearly identified as female.
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Does it really matter? Somebody driving a car at somebody else as a deliberate attempt to get them out of the way ran over somebody else's foot & the CPS are doing something about it.
Drago
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Perhaps it was Fireman Sam and the incident occurred in Leicestershire?
Poacher
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I was in a particularly pedantic mood due to unconnected prevarication (see mundane news).
Don't you bleddy well start as well - that was Lincolnshire FB!
Anyway, good result all round, both the conviction / punishment and my Brommie's fixed.
Archie_tect
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Ah [x2!] - I'd just read the linked report of the accident not Richard's original OP... oops. Sorry everyone... must try harder.
