Scandalous

[Andrew G]

18 months! A joke.

[url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3174653.ece?Submitted=true]Tragic story[/url]
This comment left on the story says it all:

[quote]If he had used a baseball bat to injure Mr Doughty he would be facing a sentence 10 times as long, yet because he was driving a car that makes it okay in the eyes of the law.

[Rob C]

Well it just got worse, sentences for driving related convictions have recently been dropped. Not sure how this will affect drunk or druggie drivers though. I think that it was recommended that there be no custodial sentences...

[Andrew G]

I saw that too. Too many people in prison and no spaces left so they plan to adapt the law to fit by making driving your car through a cyclist an offence worthy only of community service.

[Rob C]

Why not make the prisoners build new prisons? They learn a trade and the work gets done cheap.