Texting driver who killed cyclist granted leave to appeal sentence

Cut the bastards hands off...

Can they please double his sentence and punish his family too?

Leave to appeal? I think he needs to demonstrate why his conviction or his sentence were unfair... Maybe the judiciary just wanted a chance to laugh at him before they say "No chance!" and send him back to Big Zeke...

3 big Zekes.... Ouch.

Stupid duplicate posting bug...

I hope big Zeke is very big indeed.

I hope big Zeke is very big indeed.

I hope big Zeke is very big indeed.

I hope big Zeke decides it has the makings of a long-term relationship.

I hope he meets big Zeke in the showers.

"There were opportunities to stop the man from driving around,” he said. "Just six weeks before he had persuaded a magistrate not to take his licence away and promised to lock his phone in the boot."

So he also lied to the previous judge ... so can he be charged with that too?

What a complete douche

I just hope that he is given a longer sentence.

Now, if only the judiciary could be implemented into the death of the victim due to their failure to put public safety ahead of the selfish pleas of the individual before them we'd see a step change in their willingness to keep letting these people stay on the roads.  They clearly failed to assess the risk this individual presented and as an indirect result someone else had to donate their precious life to highlight just how weak the courts are....yet again. 

Let's face it, if they had released a criminally insane individual with 8 previous offences (a clear pattern of not giving a shit about others) who went and stabbed a politician whilst shouting some neo nazi rhetoric (just saying) there would be public outcry. 

Car?  Whoops. Next.

Until society rejects the notion that a licence is an ultimate right regardless of competence we will make little in the way of progress.  Unfortunately we are locked into submission by powerful lobbying groups who appear to put the fear of God into any MP who even tries to change the status quo around motoring conduct and culture...what other reason is there for continued parliamentary apathy towards such sustained and needless violence?

Perhaps civil litigation to bankrupt these people is the only interim way of bypassing the current 'justice' system in the hope they are forced to take the bus or heavens forbid, hop onto a bike.  

If he gets his sentence reduced I am giving up on the judicial system and will be forming a vigilante cycling club, complete with baseball bats and blunt rusty penknives.

Is it possible to request a harsher sentence - if so who do we have to contact?

Unbelievable...

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