Another driver who thinks he is above the law is jailed. This time it is Lord Ahmed, who will be doing six weeks out of a 12 week stint. After all, nobody but the most depraved does the full stretch. Ahmed won't have time to figure out where everything is before he is let out again.
The driver of the car he hit was killed. 12 weeks for that? I wonder if Lord Ahmed voted for a ban on hand-held mobile phone use whilst driving when it went through the House of Lords. It's an utter disgrace.
Only this morning whilst walking my children to school a driver on his mobile phone casually turned into his driveway right in front of us. He didn't appear to have noticed. If he'd hit us, would it have been careless, dangerous or what?
Some people are just too arrogant and selfish for their own good. Perhaps as Lord Ahmed sits in his cell tonight, chewing over the rights and wrongs of life with his cellmate, he can reflect on it all. And a good run round the excercise yard will stimulate the brain cells!
The case for defence I made on GB News last night
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Here's the relevant section on Dangerous Driving from the CPS Manual:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/dangerous_driving/
Although the noble lord is an odious person, the dangerous driving for which he was convicted ceased some 3 miles from the accident at which point his standard of driving, in the opinion of the Police and CPS, was not significantly different than should be reasonably expected of any driver. If the evidence was sufficiently strong that there was a better than 50/50 chance of securing a conviction then he would have been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
You got in first! I had heard and read that he had stopped texting 3 miles before he hit the car. I had intended to correct my comment on the death of the man. I realise Lord Ahmed didn't kill the man but he did apparently hit the car, so an element of dangerous driving comes into play.
It still is the case that his solicitor maintains that Ahmed's actions were perfectly acceptable and that it is others who are getting at him. That's what I think is very sad in all this. That a parliamentarian and his legal adviser think the law doesn't mean much to them.
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