Driver gets 18 months for hit and run on Simon Richardson

[Banjo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-19420354

This guy starts drinking at 6 AM mows down Paralympian double cycling gold medal winner Simon Richardson, leaves him for dead, hides his van in a field,seems to show no remorse .Sentence is a joke IMHO.

 

[Robeh]

18 month sentence what a joke sums up the judicial system in this country

 

[gaz]

What a joke.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

18 month sentence what a joke sums up the judicial system in this country

+1

 

[psmiffy]

I agree but is it really in the public interest to jail him for any longer - the five year driving ban (presumably with the obligation to take a driving test at the end of it) goes some way to address the balance - but it should have been a life ban or at the very minimum 10 years

 

[Hitchington]

Scum, subhuman scum.

 

[Robeh]

I agree but is it really in the public interest to jail him for any longer - the five year driving ban (presumably with the obligation to take a driving test at the end of it) goes some way to address the balance - but it should have been a life ban or at the very minimum 10 years

probably not in the public interest to jail him for longer,but for me it should have been min 5 year sentence and a driving ban for life.
The law on drink driving needs to be looked at.
Simon Richardson is lucky to be alive TBH

 

[mickle]

Shocking. But I do think these sentences are slowly creeping up.

 

[Robeh]

Shocking. But I do think these sentences are slowly creeping up.

Maybe but not high enough IMO...

 

[Watt-O]

This is the idot who handed out the sentence http://www.apexchambers.net/pages/profile_dwilliams.htm

18 months for a hit and run, lying bastard, coward. I suppose Williams will claim he was only following government sentencing guidelines s (or whatever these over-paid legal tossers call 'em).

 

[numbnuts]

Anybody that leaves the scene of an accident should get a life ban from driving IMO

 

[Trickedem]

15 months for the dangerous driving, but just 3 months extra for leaving the scene of the crime. Hardly an incentive for anyone to stop is it. The extra 3 months for driving with excess alcohol will run concurrently.
We can only hope that with Paralympians being in the news, this derisory sentence will be more widely criticised than just by us cyclists complaining to each other on a forum.

 

[srw]

While we all induldge ourself in moaning, here's what Richardson himself had to say:

"As for the court's verdict, I am happy in a way with the sentence.
"I would have been happy whatever sentence he got, even if he walked free.
"At the end of the day, it was just an accident and he did not deliberately set out to knock me down.
"But it is important that a precedent has been set – that not only should a person be charged with excess alcohol but it also qualifies as dangerous driving.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/30/drunk-driver-sentence-paralympian-cyclist

How about following his lead and accepting the sentence?

 

[sabian92]

I agree but is it really in the public interest to jail him for any longer - the five year driving ban (presumably with the obligation to take a driving test at the end of it) goes some way to address the balance - but it should have been a life ban or at the very minimum 10 years

Yes, as it stands because what if he runs somebody else over pissed?

Surely that is in the public interest of not dying?

 

[Drago]

It he behaves himself in the clink he'll automatically serve only 9 months.