Driver who killed woman cyclist sentenced to community service

It is outrageous. I vote for a minimum of a life ban for killers like this.

Number 2 this week with a derisive sentence. This doesn't quite compare with the Scottish driving without due care and attention at 1.5x the posted speed limit and on the wrong side of the ride. Of course that's not dangerous driving at all! 150 hours community service and 12 months driving ban. And then he is back in the same court on the same day for assaulting a customer.

Not even any consistency in sentencing across the country (though I do not Scottish law does vary from English).

I just see stuff like this and these people who think they are hard done to by a one day cycle event (Etape Caledonia and National Road Champs at Pendle) and wonder just what we have done so wrong to the world.

I'm amazed Nick Griffin didn't vilify us in his campaign. Perhaps the reason he didn't get voted in?

here here.

Sadly, the automobile has become such as corner-stone of modern societies that it is now an inescapable fact of life that people who kill using a motorvehicle must be treated differently. The whole house-of-cards - living wherever you choose, dual-income households, out-of-town shopping with cheap goods delivered to stores just-in-time, and many leisure acitivities (including driving to a bike race or cyclosportive) - would collapse if people in authority started actually making everyone pay the full costs of driving, either dangerously, as in these recent cases, or just in general. Basically, the "right" to drive has been promoted above the right to life by an overwhelming economic and cultural need to ignore the downsides of private car ownership. And that is having a knock-on effect on morality in general, far greater than which management team gets to preside over the slow decline of this island for the next five years.

Outrageous, outrageous!

I simply don't get it. How can someone kill a cyclist, lie to the police and then get away without a prison sentence?

Something really needs to be done about this. As these cases repeatedly crop up (recently the Stephen McKay case) the message it sends out is that if you, as a driver, hit a cyclist then you'll probably get away with it, even if you lie and/or were speeding etc.

Disgraceful.

Yet again I am stunned, disgusted and angered at the leniency of the law in these cases - someone's daughter, wife and a childs mother died FFS.

Surely lying about the events that took place should be regarded as attempting to pervert the course of justice and, when combined with the fact that a cyclist was killed, that should mean a custodial sentence at THE VERY LEAST?

And why oh why oh WHY do driving bans for anything less than 'the rest of your life' keep being issued?

Dangerous drivers should be taken off the road. Forever.

It's a bit like saying that if you own a dangerous dog which attacks someone you should not be allowed to own any dog of any sort for the rest of your life (I appreciate it's a poor analogy). It's just common sense.

She at least should serve time for lying to the police!!!

I really do just want to give the f**k up sometimes, I mean what is the point!

yet another "murder" goes un punished ..... If you were
to do that to another car you'd get a custodial sentance.

What is the matter with the Judges in these cases. Not only did this driver kill someone but she was found to have lied about it and does not go to prison.

It is indeed disgraceful.

Disgraceful