9 Years For Man Who Killed Two Little Boys In Car Crash In Coventry

[ladybirder]

and ran away from the scene. Already has 30 or more previous driving convictions. Disgraceful. Poor family. NINE YEARS!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-43926623

[mushroom25]

howsoever long he actually serves, given his character, previous and lack of driving licence, you can bet his first act on release will be to start driving again.

[Peter Pedant]

.. yet again, people do not realise that a Judge CAN NOT just make up a sentence off the top of his/her head. //

sure dey can!
doesnt anyone remember the time Justice Melford ( Mel; Mel-Mel; good old Melly; Killer Mel; Momo mow them down Mel; Hangem Hi Mel Stevenson ( who named his house "Truncheons" erm Judges lodgings I mean ) imposed the death penalty for driving on the pavement ?

Overturned on appeal by a panel of poofter tree huggers
( aka ct of criminal appeal )

[marval]

Nine years is nothing compared to the lifetime of pain the parents will have.

[EDDIE51]

I remember reading about a US judge who was known as 'The Time Machine' for the excessive lengths of prison time she gave out.

[ladybirder]

// It was not aimed at you ladybirder. If you want to know sentence guidelines just do as I do and Google it. \\
EDDIE do not tell me what to do please. Thank you.

[Mamyalynne]

Judge Ellen "Maximum" Morphonios, Eddie.

[jim360]

I'm sure that most people appreciate that the sentence for death by dangerous driving is set at no more than 14 years (I think this was increased from 10 years recently), so that the judge's hands were tied. What they also appreciate is that such sentences are a joke. The law really has to be changed to allow for longer sentences, especially with a record like this.

[New Judge]

"Nine years is nothing compared to the lifetime of pain the parents will have."

Of which he will, of course, serve four and a half years (less any time spent in custody on remand).

[Fatalbertfixer]

Personally,I would like to see them serve the expected life term that each child would have looked forward to living,and that the cell included a noose for them to relive themselves of said sentence if they felt it was getting too much for them.

[anotheoldgit]

Amazing not a mention of the mere 6 months his odious passenger received.

/// Gwendoline Harrison, 42, of Triumph Close, Wyken, who was a passenger in the car, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She had admitted a charge of assault intending to resist arrest and trying to leave the scene when she "knew two children lay dying". ///