Did This Father Deserve To Be Jailed?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5316113/Doctor-47-killed-nine-year-old-daughter-crash.html

Yes he was very foolish and he could have killed others, but he killed his own daughter a thing he will have to live with for the rest of his life, isn't that bad enough?

Surely banning him from driving for the rest of his life, would have been a more appropriate sentence?

[campbellking]

Already previously fined for speeding, still happy to 'drive like a lunatic', yes he should go to jail.

[emmie]

talbot makes a good point, suppose it was another kid not his own, would you still have said no custodial sentence because i wouldn't.

[hereIam]

He fully deserves to be jailed. He also lied by saying his brakes failed to get himself off, not a nice man imo.

[andy-hughes]

Yes he did deserve to go to prison.

Any convicted offender, for any offence, will offer mitigation as to why they should not go to jail.

If you start taking that into account, where do you draw the line?

Who decides whose circumstances merit them staying out of jail?

The simple way to avoid such inequalities, is for the law to be applied appropriately and without favour, as it was in this case.

This man's guilt at killing his child is something he has to live with for the rest of his life.

The prison sentence he serves is because he broke the law, and that is the laid-down punishment.

The law sends you to prison for what you did, not the results of what you did.

[tonyav]

Late for a maths lesson, not exactly an emergency was it.

Lock him up.

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - // Late for a maths lesson, not exactly an emergency was it.

Lock him up. //

As I have pointed out, the rationale behind the behaviour is not the issue, neither is the resultant grief in this individual case.

The law is broken, the sentence is issued, that's as far as it needs to go.

[tonyav]

The law is broken

It sure is.

[andy-hughes]

Tonyav - // The law is broken

It sure is. //

I am unsure of what you mean - ?

Surely the fair and even application of the law here demonstrates that the law is not broken?

[tonyav]

Did This Father Deserve To Be Jailed?

The op ^^^^^^^


My opinion
Lock him up.

[andy-hughes]

Tonyav - // id This Father Deserve To Be Jailed?

The op ^^^^^^^


My opinion
Lock him up. //

I understand your view, what I don't get is why you think the law is broken?

Did you simply mean he had broken the law, and I am reading too much into your post?

If so, apologies - crossed wires are the price we sometimes pay for written comunciation, where meanings can be misunderstood.

[tonyav]

Yes he broke the law.

[THECORBYLOON]

The judge took into account the fact the driver was a loving father-amongst other mitigating factors- and reduced the gaol sentence accordingly.

[jno]

complicated decision. The judge said the dangerous bit was overtaking on the wrong side. After that, he was going too fast, tried to brake but hit the accelerator by mistake.

On that basis, I think the sentence is probably about right, but I wouldn't have been outraged if it had been shorter. If he'd deliberately gone through the lights it would have been worse.