jefmcg
Guru
I often see here sentiments like "what is a cyclists life worth?" and a general feeling that knocking someone down with a car is treated less seriously than other offences. Is that really true, I wonder.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yo...vellers_jailed_for_exploiting_vulnerable_man/
The robbed a man of 35 years of his life, and stole £139,000 of benefits as well as his labour. They got 21 months each, and have to pay him £2000.
If you kill a 60 year old, you have probably taken less years from him than these two did. And they did over decades, not through one bad judgement, or even a series of bad judgements that leads to a tragedy on the roads.
(If you don't pay the minimum wage, you will be required by law to pay the amount owing. Why aren't the goods being seized to pay the man the tens - or hundreds - of thousand pounds they owe him in back pay?)
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yo...vellers_jailed_for_exploiting_vulnerable_man/
The robbed a man of 35 years of his life, and stole £139,000 of benefits as well as his labour. They got 21 months each, and have to pay him £2000.
If you kill a 60 year old, you have probably taken less years from him than these two did. And they did over decades, not through one bad judgement, or even a series of bad judgements that leads to a tragedy on the roads.
(If you don't pay the minimum wage, you will be required by law to pay the amount owing. Why aren't the goods being seized to pay the man the tens - or hundreds - of thousand pounds they owe him in back pay?)
