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Justice (Lonpicman, Wikimedia Commons)Motorist jailed for causing cyclist life-changing injuries back in prison for flouting driving ban
A motorist who was jailed after seriously injuring a cyclist while driving under the influence of drugs found herself back to prison after she was caught driving her car while banned.
Emily Brown, aged 32, was spotted by police on 7 March this year as she drove her six-year-old daughter to school in Oldham with her six-year-old daughter also in the car, reports The Sun.
Last July, she was banned for driving for four and a half years and handed a 12 month jail sentence after leaving cyclist Stuart Crowther with a broken skull when she crashed into him from behind while high on cocaine.
The victim, who also suffered from lack of concentration and dizzy spells as a result of the incident in October 2017, was forced to give up his job as a lorry driver.
Brown, who is pregnant, served around half the 12-month jail term before being released on licence, spent 28 days in prison after police caught her driving last month.
She has since pleaded guilty at Tameside Magistrates’ Court to driving while disqualified and uninsured.
She was handed a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, which took into account the 28 days she had already served, her driving ban was extended by a year, and she was told to pay costs and surcharges totalling £200.
Magistrates told Brown, who works as a lettings agent: “This offence does definitely pass the custody threshold but we are giving you credit for the guilty plea and the fact you have already done 28 days recall.
“It is important, Ms Brown that you get yourself sorted out,” they added.
At her original trial last year, the court heard that she was fined to have a level of cocaine six times the threshold for drug-driving in her system.
She claimed to have taken the drug 48 hours before the collision because it was six years to the day since her prematurely born twins had died, but tests revealed the cocaine had been taken 12 hours beforehand.
Sentencing Brown last July, Judge Bernadette Baxter told her: “You have expressed genuine remorse, you are a valued member of staff at work and you suffer with depression, and have been self-medicating with cannabis and cocaine following the death of your twin babies. I have also been told your daughter has been having problems at school.
“But you need to face your responsibilities as a mother. I am fully aware you have suffered a bereavement but you are responsible for you children and they are not responsible for your actions.
“There was significant risk to life by your own driving. He has suffered life changing injuries,” she added.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Just trying to get my head round the time line hear, She was jailed for a year in July, and when caught driving in March she was 6 months pregnant, so does that mean she had been released in September, or do prisoners get congugal visits these days.
Also, she was recalled to prison for breaching her licence conditions, but that 28 days inside was taken into account while sentencing for driving while banned. Does that mean that the 28 days are used as punishment for 2 different offences.
Reading the report in the Sun (Urrgghhhh I know) she also drove to the school becuse her oldest child had been sent home (or some such thing) but noone seems to ask the question "Why do you have a car ? - you have a 4.5 year driving ban"
Ultimatly she is still out on the streets before the end of her original sentence despite adding more offences to her rap sheet.
She just ain't gonna stop driving. After all it is a human right.
Another vote for confiscation and resale of vehicles used to flout a driving ban - don't waste all those materials and CO2.
I've long thought that as a driving ban is a court order, surely driving while banned is contempt of court, which carries up to a 2 year custodial sentence. Not "enough", but enough to make people think twice. When they're not coked up to their eyeballs.
I have long thought the same thing. but rather than two years I believe it should be an automatic custodial for the length of the ban (from the beginning, not the remaining time) so if a ten year banned driver is convicted eight years later then the sentence is ten years, the assumption should be that they have driven for the previous eight years and so they need a provable ten years not driving
similarly if someone has been release early (as per the case hear) and is then convicted of another offence then they should automatically be returned to prison and not be eligible for early release as they have proven they have no respect for the justice system and its sentencing.
I also believe that any other infractions of the sentence or parole are in fact showing no remorse at all for the original or subsequent offences
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of sympathy for her miscarriages either. Cocaine use is a massive risk factor for miscarriages. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/cocaine/what-are...
I can't believe she only got into the habit after losing her babies.
Social services should take her kids off her, and immediately take her new born off her, clearly not fit to be a parent. druggy, no respect for the law, no respect for hiuman life.
For her kids sake I hope she dies an agonising death in a pool of piss and blood, one less piece of shit to worry about mowing down innocent victims.
Crushing cars in front of their owners would be awesome. Modern equivalent of the stocks.
FTFY
I think there should be mor crushing of illegally used vehicles.
I think our carbon footprint would be lower if the cars were confiscated and sold at auction.
Alternatively, the engine could be replaced with a pedal drive and the owner's licence altered to only allow driving in that vehicle.
"Genuine remorse"?? Oh, that is such horlicks!
"I lost twins so the best way of dealing with this is putting another family through similar trauma"
There needs to be a method for preventing banned drivers from driving, not sure what that is
If only there was some place you could send them to live for a while, where they wouldn't be able to operate a vehicle...
Perhaps not in the first instance, but if someone fails to respect a 4.5 year driving ban, why should they not be locked up for 4.5 years to ensure that they comply with the ban?
Tl:DR - yup
Hopefully Social Services are on the case as she's clearly endangering her kids driving around coked off her tits
Relatively simple matter to set up a paramilitary, extralegal organisation, with the sole aim of finding drivers who injure someone, but who are allowed off without a custodial. Breaking both legs would curtail their on-road activities for a good while.
The trick would be to avoid infiltration by Special Branch.
Well, it's a step up from dropping paving slabs onto innocent people in cars, and a bit of fantasy vigilantism to right a few wrongs is something we might all indulge ourselves with from time to time, but not really the sort of behaviour any civilised person would actually engage in.
You actually believe you're 'civilised'?
As Voltaire said "I knew I was back in civilisation because they were fighting so savagely." With an impenetrable French accent a la Clouseau of course.
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Might I suggest that someone who uses the horrific time during the loss of her twins as an excuse for taking cocaine, then drives whilst banned with two of her own children in the car, is unlikely to know what genuine remorse is.
She needs to get her mental health sorted out before thinking about getting behind the wheel again, regardless of the ban handed out.
Take some fucking responsibility and show genuine remorse.
She's quite clearly not getting the message that she is banned. Besides the danger of not yet being retrained (extended driving test surely after such a lengthy* ban) she cannot possibly have had insurance when caught. The car would / should also have been confiscated and crushed or cost more to get back than the fine.
Driving her 6 year old to school? I would be extremely surprised if it were a distance of over a mile. I'm sure the other parents are thrilled to have such a person driving in proximity to their own children. Hopefully they will lynch her if she arrives at school driving a car again.
*But not long enough.
Can't they just surgically remove her head
?
Possibly hard due to her brass neck?
The driving ban should be part of her terms if she was released early... Caught driving during the 4 1/2 year ban (which of course should start the day she in released, a ban while inside is kind of pointless) and back she should go to complete the initial 12 months, PLUS the extra for ignoring the ban.... Not betting a suspended sentence for her 12 weeks as she's spent 4 inside while it got dealt with.
With that logic, get a £200 speeding ticket and get offered £100 if you behave for the next few years. Get caught speeding again, and get to pay £30 instead of the £100 remaining "because"
I'm speechless!
Why a suspended sentence? She's already demonstrated complete disregard for the law.
I suspect she played the 'primary caregiver' card. It has the words 'Pussy Pass' stamped in small letters on the back.
That seems the wrong way round to me. If you're a primary caregiver, then you should be expected to behave with more responsibility. If she can't even manage to 'not drive' then I don't see that she's going to be capable of being a good parent.
You're preaching to the choir.
But 'primary caregiver' is a sure fire way for a woman to avoid a custodial, where a man would be sent to prison - yes, even a man who is a single parent. 'He should have thought of that before ____' is the usual refrain when mention is made of depriving children of their parent.
I'm not trying to offend the feminists and the white knights, but equally, I don't care if I do. It is well documented that women are treated more leniently by the criminal justice system, than are men who commit comparable offences.
Just read the Sun story and they do a nice bit of victim blaming on the guy she originally, hit reporting that he was wearing reflective clothing but no helmet.
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