That "Special Relationship" Again

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-advises-anne-sacoolas-not-111011298.html

[Ellipsis]

Sentencing is taking place - looks like a custodial sentence will be handed out ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/63748369

[Ellipsis]

8 months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months!

[Ellipsis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/63748369?pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:663e0a3e-cfaa-4ad4-8894-16d53e3d1066&pinned_post_asset_id=63920dd5e7e8f473cfbfcf9d
An inevitable outcome?

Dominic Casciani
Legal Correspondent at the Old Bailey

This sentence is perhaps the most inevitable outcome of a deeply complex case.

Mrs Justice Chema-Grubb could not give Sacoolas a community order, such as unpaid work because, in her words, "it's obvious no enforcement can be carried out."

An immediate jail sentence would have needed Sacoolas to surrender to the court.

And so the judge said the only real option was a suspended sentence plus a driving ban - in the UK.

[Bazile]

What if she's in transit on a plane , which suffers technical difficulties , and is forced to land on British soil .

Would she be arrested ?

[JimF]

Arrested for what? She got a suspended sentence.

[tomus42]

NJ, she should have been extradited and tried in a proper court, with the sentence reflecting the fact that she was available to serve it if required. That would have been justice.

[Gromit]

She was disqualified from driving.
And got a prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Since she is unlikely to step foot on British soil for a long time, and unlike to recommit the offense, then it is a very light sentence as expected.

[Ellipsis]

It's symbolic. Might have been interesting if her government had been a bit more cooperative ...