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Life time driving ban !

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  • May 28, 2025 at 12:49 pm #1150393
    EK Spinner

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvm8lvyymlo

    Not cycling related as such but I have seen this subject discussed here several times over the years. This is the first time I have see a lifetime driving ban given for death by dangerous driving. Has there been a change in legislation or sentencing guidlines, or is it simply one of those rare time that a judge actually has the bottle to do it.

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  • June 9, 2025 at 12:45 pm #1154301
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    peted76

    An actual lifetime ban!! 

    An actual lifetime ban!!  Real life.. lifetime ban!! RIP the old fella who was killed, but blimey.. are we going to see more of these now that this ‘one’ has been sentanced? I hope so. 

     

     

    May 29, 2025 at 3:15 pm #1153945
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    Tom_77
    Spangly Shiny wrote:
    I have a question. If the offence was committed in Blantyre (South of Glasgow), why is the hearing in Inverness, some 170 miles away? Is this to make it more convenient for the accused to, (or more likely that he will) attend?

    From the previous story – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjlnvpex1ko

    He was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow and remanded in custody pending sentencing. So he may have been in prison in Inverness at the time of the sentencing hearing.

    May 28, 2025 at 10:10 pm #1153935
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    NOtotheEU

    I assumed they never happened

    I assumed they never happened so this really surprised me

    In 2021, the Ministry of Justice reports that lifetime bans increased to 251, up from 9 in 2020 and 12 in 2019.

    AVZ Blog (August 2022) Driving bans are still too rare

    May 28, 2025 at 8:54 pm #1153933
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    mdavidford

    Seems unlikely, since they’re

    Seems unlikely, since they’re from the area where the offence was committed.

    Maybe Inverness has more free court capacity than Glasgow?

    May 28, 2025 at 8:47 pm #1153931
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    Spangly Shiny

    I have a question. If the

    I have a question. If the offence was committed in Blantyre (South of Glasgow), why is the hearing in Inverness, some 170 miles away? Is this to make it more convenient for the accused to, (or more likely that he will) attend?

    May 28, 2025 at 2:33 pm #1153927
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    Bungle_52

    The case in this article more

    The case in this article more details here

    https://judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/sentences-and-opinions/2025/05/27/hma-v-edward-leslie-feelie

    Drugs
    Stayed at the scene
    pleaded guilty to dangerous driving
    3 previous convictions
    6.5 years lifetime ban

    Comparable case posted elsewhere on this site

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3qdj0qdp7o
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    https://www.cps.gov.uk/north-west/news/jailed-cocaine-fuelled-driver-who-killed-three-year-old-manchester-van-tram-crash

    Drugs
    Fled the scene
    pled guilty to dangerous driving
    number of previous convictions
    12 years in jail 13 year ban

    In my opinion feeing the scene should be an automatic lifetime ban.

    May 28, 2025 at 1:47 pm #1153925
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    thereverent

    They get given out, but

    They get given out, but pretty rarely. The only other one I know of is a driver who killed a pedestrian having killed another a few years before.

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