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GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
BBC Quote:
"Lord Heseltine has been fined £5,000 for knocking a cyclist off his bike.
Heseltine, who had been driving a green Jaguar car, pulled out of a lane and into the path of the cyclist on the B4525 near Thenford, Northamptonshire, on 19 June.
The male cyclist had multiple injuries, including a broken arm and shattered knees which required plates and pins.
On Thursday at Northampton Magistrates' Court the 83-year-old peer pleaded guilty to careless driving.
Heseltine was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge and £85 costs, a magistrates' court clerk confirmed.
He was also handed five penalty points on his driving licence."
Only £5,000 for breaking their arm and shattering their knees
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
But it's ok. The cyclist was a labour voter.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Were you trained to describe 18 stone men as 'burly'?
jefmcg
Guru
Burly applies only to the police. Surely you know that. And has for the best part of a century as Dorothy Parker once said "on the day that that man bites that dog, another frontpage item is going to concern a policeman who is not burly"
jefmcg
Guru
83 year old mows down a cyclist: surely his licence should be suspended until he can prove he is still competent to drive?
dim
Guest
- Location
- Cambridge UK
did they test him for drink/drugs driving?
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
I was thinking that in fact the fine was actually a lot more than most similar offences incur. Obviously it should be more anyway.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Fines in magistrates' courts are banded to reflect income.
One might expect Heseltine to be in the highest band.
What probably happened, as often does with wealthy defendants, is he will have declined to fill in a means form.
In those circumstances the magistrates are obliged to assume a high starting point.
That doesn't cost Heseltine anything because he would have qualified for that anyway.
The benefit to him is details of his wealth are not disclosed in court.
