[Mungecrundle]

Banned from driving on numerous previous occassions. Convicted of driving whilst banned, without insurance and with positive drug and alcohol tests at the crash scene.

= suspended sentence and another (previous bans having proven ineffectual) temporary driving ban.

No wonder that rogue drivers have little fear from the courts system, especially if money is no object.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-59643479

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[Simon E]

Sriracha wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

A non-offender is better than an ex-offender. Is there no deterence in making the punishment fit the crime?

Hasn’t worked in America, where the death penalty is still used widely.

As mdavidford has said, those committing crimes are invariably not expecting to be caught or the fallout after a conviction.

Driving bans should be rigidly enforced and vehicles confiscated. It won’t prevent people driving like dicks but it will ensure some of the worst ones stay off the road once convicted.

Dangerous repeat offenders like Price and the ones cynically bleating “but I need it for my job” once in court should be shown that they can’t screw the system over and over again.

[Awavey]

as long as everyone is

as long as everyone is treated the same, then theres no problem is there, and the media interest is irrelevant, because it has no impact on what the courts & judges should be deciding.

but this guy was jailed for drink driving after “only” his 3rd strike. “The court was left with no option but to send him to prison.” said the judge

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/haverhill-man-jailed-for-drink-driving-west-suffolk-8564562

[Captain Badger]

Sriracha wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

A non-offender is better than an ex-offender. Is there no deterence in making the punishment fit the crime?

Once someone is an offender they don’t have that option open to them. It’s either ex-offender or repeat-offender. My money would go on enabling and supporting them that they choose the former.

[mdavidford]

I read that as meaning that

I read that as meaning that they shouldn’t bend to media demands to ‘make an example’ out of someone just because they happen to be a celebrity – that if we deny someone access to a rehabilitative route because they’re in the public eye, then we undermine our use of it for the ordinary Joe.

[mdavidford]

Not much, no – particularly

Not much, no – particularly with addiction-related offences. By the time someone’s in the situation where they’re about to commit the offence, ‘what will happen if I’m caught?’ isn’t generally top of their mind.

[Awavey]

Then I would direct her to
Then I would direct her to look closely at Lady Justice, the statue on top of the Old Bailey (often used as a library photo by road.cc for court cases), she is blindfolded because it represents the ideal justice is applied without regard to wealth, power or other status.

Those in the public eye should not be treated differently by the courts than those that are not.

[Sriracha]

A non-offender is better than
A non-offender is better than an ex-offender. Is there no deterence in making the punishment fit the crime?

[jaymack]

I regularly appeared in a

I regularly appeared in a number London Magistrates’ Court prosecuting the most drug addled in town including, on a regular basis, a certain member of the Libertines. The press used to howl derision at the non-custodial/rehablitative sentences he received. I remember discussing these views with the District Judge late one winter’s afternoon and she made it plain that if we couldn’t demonstrate that we could rehabilitate those in the public eye we couldn’t rehabilitate anyone. An ex-offender is better than a reoffender but you have to rehabilate one to have the other.  What would you do?

[brooksby]

In the coverage of this story

In the coverage of this story, I can’t get past the bit where she openly admitted to the attending officers that she shouldn’t have been driving and that she had been drinking and had taken drugs.

I mean – WTAF???  Surely that should be go to jail, go directly to jail.

Six or more driving offences, rehab on numerous occasions, bankruptcy… 

Part of me wants to feel sorry for the woman; part of me wants to scream at her to “sort her f-ing life out!” (c) Shaun of the Dead.

[Hirsute]

Some post here in the

Some post here in the comments section about a previous court agreement that if she did her rehad, she wouldn’t go to prison. How that is appropriate for a sixth offence including multiple offences for this incident,  I don’t know.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19788617.katie-price-police-consider-appeal-star-avoids-prison-drink-driving-crash-sussex/

 

[joe9090]

They should tag people like

They should tag people like this if they wont send them to jail. They should have to spend the entire suspended sentence in house arrest, allowed out only for legal or medical (not silcone tit inflation) appointments… and that is it. 

Driving ban should have been 10 years.

[wycombewheeler]

cars need to be impounded

cars need to be impounded from people when they are banned, particularly when they show they do not respect the driving bans. Maybe also car sellers need to check the buyer has a driving licence in the same way car hirers check.

[Captain Badger]

ErnieC wrote:

ErnieC wrote:

Pay someone some money to break her kneecaps. Nothing else seems to be working with this being and when the legal system is failing everyday people, drastic actions are called for. 

Threats of violence, however tongue in cheek, really aren’t good.
In any case standing for public office would be more effective. This case is merely a symptom, not a discrete illness.

[ErnieC]

Pay someone some money to

Pay someone some money to break her kneecaps. Nothing else seems to be working with this being and when the legal system is failing everyday people, drastic actions are called for. 

[Anonymous]

Nick Freeman already

Nick Freeman already predicted she would avoid jail: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/16288979/katie-price-escape-jail-time-sobers-up-claims-lawyer/

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