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@OldTom In cases like this, the defence council in addition to trying to get a not guilty verdict, is also carrying out the important role of testing the robustness of the prosecution case. It ensures that high standards of proof are maintained for future prosecutions.

It really doesn’t seem like TfL or the Mayor have thought this one through. Previously cyclists could use Seymour Street and Wigmore Street to travel in parallel to the dangerously congested Oxford Street. With Oxford Street now closed, the traffic / gridlock has been moved to Seymour Street and Wigmore Street - removing the previously safe cycle route. Due to the number of one way streets and squares to the north of Oxfords street there is no longer a logical route for anyone cycling east to west or vice versa.

@the little onion Not sure she deserves that much credit, she said that when Mr Mullins was thrown clear of the car she looked back and saw him still moving, yet she didn't report the incident to the police until the next day so for all she knew Mr Mullins could have been lying there dying undiscovered through the night. Of course she may have been scared of Richardson's reaction if she tried to stop him or call the police but I'd be hesitant to give her any plaudits on the basis of the evidence in court, some of which (as reported, anyway, there may of course have been other evidence unreported that cast her in a better light) seemed to suggest that her making a report was more motivated by a desire to ensure that she wasn't charged as an accessory rather than making sure Richardson faced the consequences of his actions.

@ymm You can be confident that newspapers like the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sun etc will, if they print an account of this an account of this case, keep it well away from the front pages.

It's worth noting that a key prosecution witness was the passenger and cousin of Simon Richardson. I don't know what she was thinking or experienced in that car, or what she could have done differently that day, but she deserves credit for her role in providing essential evidence despite the close relationship with Simon Richardson.

@Hollis Jones I’m not sure the Rouvy acquisition was a shortcut, it’s been reported by DC Rainmaker and ZwiftInsider (both respected sources) that Zwift started this over two years ago, and the videos are completely different films (albeit similar locations). If there’s a conspiracy theory to be had, it could be that the acquisition was a cheap way out of a lawsuit.

Daily Mail calling that a "Peloton". It's far from even being an Echelon, or a Échappée. More like Chasse Patate

Every time an LTN has been introduced in London, in its initial stages it has been plagued with drivers going through no entry signs, driving the wrong way up one-way streets, driving over pavements to get round barriers etc. I'm not a regular reader of the Daily Mail, thank goodness, but I certainly can't remember seeing or hearing about any report of theirs on that behaviour and an outcry that it was only a matter of time before a driver hit somebody.

@HoarseMann Absolutely, I find it completely absurd and I can't understand why Khan, who has been so good for cyclists and active travel in so many other ways, didn't insist on it. I had a fantasy, which might have been impractical but I think would have looked very pretty, of running a sunken cycle lane down the middle of the street, say four feet deep or so, with suitably attractive pedestrian bridges over it at intervals, so it looked rather like a waterless canal. There's ample room to do it, it would've kept pedestrians and cyclists completely separated, and I think would've looked rather charmingly quirky.

@mitsky Leaving aside the fact that I, and I think most people, wouldn't want to live in a society where physically or chemically mutilating people was used by the state as a form of punishment, why do you think that would be a deterrent? In cases like this the perpetrator, vile as he is, didn't intend that day to murder somebody, he didn't sit down and think okay, I'll get life in prison but I'm not going to have my taste buds or libido removed so I'll chance it. He did one of the most appalling things I've ever heard of a driver doing but on the spur of the moment and doubtless in a panic, if capital punishment was still in place the deterrent effect wouldn't have worked on him. We all know that in the USA states that have the death penalty have no lower murder rates than those that don't, there's no reason to suppose that your proposed, and if you'll excuse me utterly barbaric, form of punishment would act as any more of a deterrent. It might make us, or some of us, feel better about getting some form of revenge on the perpetrator of such an appalling crime, but as a deterrent its effect would be negligible if not non-existent.