A hit-and-run driver described by a judge as having had a “red mist” descend upon him when he deliberately rammed a cyclist, causing him multiple injuries, has walked free from court after a judge imposed a curfew on him. It’s a case that once again raises questions over sentencing.
At trial, Reid acknowledged that he had “behaved badly” and “done wrong,” and that he was “genuinely remorseful. “The manner of your driving saw you repeatedly swerving until you struck the cyclist with your car to his very seriously injury – fracturing a vertebra and his pelvis. We’ve reported on a number of cases in which drivers convicted of the offence have not been given custodial sentences, as well as others in which they have – typically, where there are aggravating factors such as failure to stop, as happened in both the cases we have reported on today.
Judge Jeremy Richardson said: “I echo the views of the Court of Appeal in the case of Jenkins [2015] where a level of criticism was directed at the maximum sentence of five years for crimes of this kind.
It's getting tiresome the amount of these stories that don't seem somehow fair. If the reporting is factually correct, then there does seem to be inequality in the sentencing of those found guilty of whatever poor standard of driving that caused the offence.
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