Speechless!

Fireblade_Rob · 24 March 2011 07:48

The arrogance of the twat!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/858286-golf-club-drink-driver-s-3-years-for-biker-death

Mel · 24 March 2011 08:11

Its a shame, but some people are like that :blink:

Kevsta · 24 March 2011 08:15

Yes that is bad, the law needs change so that people like that and this:

http://www.buzzindisgrace.co.uk/cyclist-kills-girl-gets-fined-2200/106

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2263354/Cyclist-knocked-down-and-killed-teenage-girl-court-hears.html

Can face manslaughter or murder charges. “Move becauses I’m not stopping”, a fine and no jail time. Words escape me, but the anger doesn’t it just makes me what to scream.

Zander · 24 March 2011 08:47

The law is so often an ass.

NinjaJunkie · 24 March 2011 09:18

Total scum

Anna · 24 March 2011 10:15

why am i not surprised it’s people like him that make world a sh1tty place

MetalRedCarrie · 24 March 2011 10:30

What a total disregard for human life. The cyclist should have been charged with manslaughter as riding into the girl was a deliberate act. I feel for both berieved families; loosing a loved one is devastating and not getting justice must compound their grief.

GuyW · 24 March 2011 11:24

Wait so this a-hole gets a 3 year jail sentence and a 3 year ban - so basically as soon as he’s out he’ll be back on the roads (thats if he even serves the full sentence - doubtful, bet he’l be out in 2)

This whole thing is a f****** joke!

Roadrunner · 24 March 2011 11:29

You see, this is exactly what boils my p!ss with our legal system! I can guarentee there’s not a single one of us who have read this and thought “F**k me! Three years? He’ll be out in 18 months!”. It’s a disgrace that these people are getting away with such soft sentences! I can guarentee that if he was caught embezzling funds from his company, or swindling the tax man, he’d have got double that sentence!

He should be left to rot in a prison cell if you ask me! If you take someones life in such a way, you should have yours taken. Simple as that!

I also think that the judges who hand out these rediculous sentences should be disbarred for imcompetence! Death by dangerous driving carries the same maximum sentence as murder. He could have quite happily have given the guy double or triple what he had without being questioned. The mere fact that he said he “wasn’t bothered if the biker was dead because he didn’t know him”, makes it quite clear that he shows no remorse or feelings towards what he has done. The court system stinks!

Kaos · 24 March 2011 11:41

I think that this is something we do agree on RR.

It gets my goat that crimes against property attract such high sentences while crimes against people garner these soft sentences, or worse yet, community service…yeah thanks, put that criminal back into my community, that will help make where I live a better place.

Yet when I complain that the Justice system, which includes the police, is way too focused on business and not enough on serving ordinary people…I get called a troll, not by you admittedly, but you understand the point.

It is interesting that we agree, but only so far as it doesn’t include your job.

You both enforce the same laws, you can’t claim that the court service is somehow broken, that the law is somehow wrong and still claim that the police are immune or separate from that as if you didn’t apply that same law.

I don’t understand how we can all feel the same way about this, yet it appears that I am the only one that can see that this problem goes through our entire justice system from top to toe.

I know some of you find this annoying but unfortunately it is the truth of the matter.

Roadrunner · 24 March 2011 12:33

Kaos (24/03/2011)

I think that this is something we do agree on RR.

It gets my goat that crimes against property attract such high sentences while crimes against people garner these soft sentences, or worse yet, community service…yeah thanks, put that criminal back into my community, that will help make where I live a better place.

Yet when I complain that the Justice system, which includes the police, is way too focused on business and not enough on serving ordinary people…I get called a troll, not by you admittedly, but you understand the point.

Steve, without turning this into another debate, I do serve ordinary people, a hell of a lot more than any businesses. And I can say that for all police officers who work on response teams. We don’t make up the law, or get a say in how people are punished. That is up to the courts, for who we do nothing more than gather evidence and present the potential offenders. We are in no way the same as the courts, magistrates or judges. We are more of a public servant than you’d understand mate. I don’t get a choice in how the law is implemented, I just do the best I can with the limited resources I have, and try not to get it wrong for fear of being lynched by the general public for being some sort of monster. And yet, I’m still human, and mistakes can still be a possibility. Don’t lump me in with these judges though, as we are equally (if not more so) peeved when we see somebody who we have spent hours, days, weeks or even months trying to get into a court, only for some judge, who is so far removed from reality that he doesn’t think it possible that people would be out drinking at 2am, let that person off for GBH or some other offence. The system sucks from the CPS upwards. As for us guys, we’re just trying to make the country a bit safer for people like yourself to enjoy trips to the seaside, or your local pub, without fear of being robbed, beaten or possibly killed.

It is interesting that we agree, but only so far as it doesn’t include your job.

You both enforce the same laws, you can’t claim that the court service is somehow broken, that the law is somehow wrong and still claim that the police are immune or separate from that as if you didn’t apply that same law.

I’ve never said that the police are immune Steve. We are however a totally different entity from the courts. We can do the job to the best of our ability, and present an airtight case against somebody. Yet the CPS and the Magistrate/Judge who presides over it may say there is an element of doubt (no matter the fact that the person has been caught red handed) and let them off with a fine or community service, if not just letting them walk free completely. What there is, is a total lack of common sense in the justice system! I can catch a drug dealer with 20 wraps of crack cocaine shoved down behind the waistband of his trousers, and nick him for posession with intent to supply. However, he’ll only get done for posession because some nitwit in a court somewhere has deemed that he needs to be carrying double that for the offence to be complete! Even if he has been seen selling it!!! It beggars belief!

I don’t understand how we can all feel the same way about this, yet it appears that I am the only one that can see that this problem goes through our entire justice system from top to toe.

How?!?!

I know some of you find this annoying but unfortunately it is the truth of the matter.

So it’s true because you say so?! Well, it must be then! I’ve been wrong all these years! I’ll leave my job now and go and join a monastary to make up for it!

I think that you need to actually go out and see what we do for our bread and butter mate. Not watch a cop show, but actually out there with the boys going through a 12 hour shift. Dealing with what can only be termed as the scum of the earth, while they rob, beat, stab and steal their way through the borough. On top of that you can see how we deal with all the Domestic incidents, and the drunks. Or, if you want to see the compassionate side, what about the times we race across the borough because somebodies personal alarm has gone off, and we have to get there and get through the reinforced door to pick the 92 year old man off his bedroom floor because he’s fallen over whilst going to the bathroom? These, as far as I can tell, are ordinary people Steve, just like you and me, and not businesses! The nearest I come to dealing with businesses is when I have to arrest a shoplifter. And you can hardly say that’s the wrong thing to do can you?!

The way you directly likening us to the courts and judges is no different from buying a bad pint of milk and blaming the cow!

Seriously mate, who would you call if something happened to you?

PS… I know you hate the way I answer like above, but it’s easier to understand which parts I’m answering!

alex1 · 24 March 2011 12:38

Hopefully either:

a) he will die in prison - ‘I don’t care, I don’t know him’
b) Bikers in prison will beat him and make him miserable, or refer to ‘a’
c) He gets bummed senseless and then refer to ‘b’, then ‘a’.

Also, his driving ban should start when he exits jail - as that privilege wasn’t removed - it’s no option when inside.

c*nt

GuyW · 24 March 2011 14:18

Arh well at least this is good to know.

bricking_it · 24 March 2011 14:28

Boiling pi$$ here too.

What a miserable heap of defecation that old twat is.

Fireblade_Rob · 24 March 2011 17:03

Thing is it happened about 3 miles from where I live on a road I know very well so it hits home the risk we run with spunkwads like this driving around with little regard for other people. His family will get to see him after he’s released unlike the rider’s family. I’m still seething about this. He should be made to re-take his test before his licence is reinstated.

Clancey · 24 March 2011 19:38

I always thought everyone had to retake their test after a ban, is that not the case?

Jetstream · 24 March 2011 19:44

Keep the photo.