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« on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 20:05:59 » |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7888653.stmHe got sentenced the other day, 3 years for careless driving. The family were on the news saying they would have liked a much longer term. Although I can understand where their immediate frustration and anger comes from, I think three years is acceptable and the real sentence is having the 6 lives on your conscience. I doubt whether the family would really feel any better if he'd have got 30 years. Should he have got longer?
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:02:06 » |
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I think he probably should have got more.Its a bit odd when you get a longer sentence for faking your own death and decieving an insurance company than you do for killing a whole family.I dont really get sentences and sentencing none of it makes sense to me.
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Don Rogers Shop
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:05:50 » |
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agree yeovil. What makes it worse is if it was a year ago careless driving would of only bought a max 1 year prison term
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flammableBen
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:10:46 » |
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I think it's right to take into account intent as well as the consequences, even if you were doing something wrong.
Careless Driving and killing 6 people should carry a lesser sentence than stabbing 3 people to death for example.
To be honest I'm not sure what there is to gain from putting him in prison for longer, as far as I know the bloke isn't a threat to others, it's not a very effective deterrent, and it's not as if by punishing him you're bringing back the dead family.
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Don Rogers Shop
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:18:56 » |
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Tricky isnt it ben.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:24:44 » |
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T'is a very difficult one this to say the least. Yes, the lorry driver will have to live with what happened for the rest of his life. Yes, sending him to prison for 10 years won't bring the family back. I do think though that people these days don't take enough responsibility for their own actions and they shoud do - especially when they're in charge of 40 tons of metal travelling at 50/60mph on a busy motorway. I don't think you can just say, "Oh well, there's no use crying over spilt milk" or words to that effect. I think he should have got quite a bit longer.
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Don Rogers Shop
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:29:23 » |
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Was the lorry transporting milk then
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 21:48:41 » |
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His defense team reckon that the family's car may have just gone into the back of the other lorry a second before....
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:23:43 » |
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is this the case where the bloke was looking at the laptop?
sorry if im being naive
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:28:45 » |
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is this the case where the bloke was looking at the laptop?
sorry if im being naive
I believe so yes. |
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:35:22 » |
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well the bloke was a twat and deserves a longer sentence then imo
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:36:16 » |
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why?
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:47:56 » |
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Sent down for three years, but the judge said "you will have to serve at least 18 months"
WTF. Killing 6 people, a whole family dead because he was using a laptop, in a 40 ton lorry
on a motorway.
None of you would be saying that was fair if it was your family.
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:50:20 » |
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Sent down for three years, but the judge said "you will have to serve at least 18 months"
WTF. Killing 6 people, a whole family dead because he was using a laptop, in a 40 ton lorry
on a motorway.
None of you would be saying that was fair if it was your family.
how do you know? someone might really hate their family |
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 22:59:22 » |
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None of you would be saying that was fair if it was your family.
Victims aren't exactly impartial when it comes to giving their opinions on punishment. The justice system should never be about dishing out retribution for people. |
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