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Unfortunately, Sheriff Alastair Carmichael has form in cases such as this. Is he a keen motoring enthusiast perchance? I think we should be told. See upthread:
https://stv.tv/news/north/1429340-woman-who-ran-over-children-outside-mcdonald-s-avoids-jail/
I don't even know if this is rubbish or not. Eight weeks of unpaid work?
banned from driving for 10 years.
Would prison make things better in this case? The driver doesn't appear to be a serial offender and a ten year ban is pretty hefty by comparison.
Would prison make things better in this case?
No. Certainly not. Restorative justice is surely the thing, I just wondered about the amount of it and the quality.
I don't think that's a rubbish sentence.
Don't know if this has been posted already but an interesting programme about the CPS and their treatment of a careless / dangerous driving case.
Watched this this morning. Very interesting.
Watched this this morning. Very interesting.
I watched that also and found it quite moving at the end. Lots of interesting aspects but it also gave me the impression that, at the end of the day, road crime is treated as 'not proper crime' by the CPS.
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