Women who rammed cyclist-guilty DD

I gave up looking for any

I gave up looking for any kind of sense in sentencing or justice in these cases a long time ago!  The only time any of that applies seems to be when the victim also happens to be a policeman.

I am curious whether this
I am curious whether this attacker will get a similar penalty to someone who’d jumped out of their car and stabbed someone with a knife.

I really wouldn’t _presume_ it would be lighter in this case, because people do often get what seem quite short sentences for violent attacks that don’t involve a car, even when they cause “life-changing injuries”.

But I’m suspicious that there could be a psychological effect at work, in that people (juries and judges, particularly) might perceive the aggressive use of a weapon differently when it’s a weapon that a majority of people habitually have with them.

Knife-carrying youths are probably seen as a different class of people from ‘us’ (the jury or magistrate) and its harder for the person judging to feel any empathy for the perpetrator.

There must be a way an academic could look at data about the topic to suggest whether that makes a difference to sentencing or not.

I’m not convinced the victim being a cyclist is as important as the nature of the weapon used. I remembered there was a case in Birmingham of a driver deliberately mounting the pavement to run a pedestrian down, but when I googled it to see what sentence they got I couldn’t find any report of sentencing, plus it turns out there have been multiple cases of that in Birmingham in recent years (at least two involving ‘love rivals’)

Mungecrundle wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

My guess: 6 month sentence suspended for 12 months, sub £500 fine and 2 year driving ban.

Only if she has a poor lawyer, pregnant woman, will need to take baby for check ups etc. Will need all her money to feed and cloth baby. I predict the judge saying something like, would like to do this but …

Bloody lucky it was caught on

Bloody lucky it was caught on cctv.  Otherwise who would have believed the cyclist?

She should get 2 years for that I reckon. And account taken of her despicable lies.

Says she will be sentenced at 2pm today.

Given some of the recent

Given some of the recent cases, a polite request not to do it again and a 50p fine ?