"It is very stupid to send a train off when someone drunk is using it to keep upright. Getting drunk is not clever, but millions do it every weekend. When you are drunk you can be unsafe to yourself which is why you depend on people paid to protect you to do their job properly. He did not do his job and someone died. The severity of the sentence was because he did not fail in his job through negligence or failing to see her, but because he wilfully endangered he life probably through impatience."
It was, but he probably put up with this sort of crap for years, not that that excuses him. However, she must bear responsibilty for her drug taking and excessive drinking, but nobody mentions that. I don't for one minute suggest that she deserved to die, but she was stupid and irresponsbile, as well as in control of her own actions. Are we becoming a nanny state where we have to escort home every drunken aresehole? Finally, the judge said that he did not "wilfully" endanger heer and that he could not have foreseen her death. He was negligent. That is not comparable with thugs who batter people senseless andmget lesser sentences.