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Royal outrider acquitted over pensioner road death Met Police officer PC Christopher Harrison was accused of causing death by careless driving.

Jury have acquitted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks like this is just a reporting error on the part of the BBC. I believe the charge is death by careless.

Man jailed for murder of ‘good Samaritan’ helping injured woman in Sheffield Hassan Jhangur sentenced to life after killing Chris Marriott when he drove car into a crowd during wedding brawl

26 years minimum term now passed for the murder of Chris Marriott.
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Lollipop woman and pupils in Hertfordshire nearly hit by car Drivers face penalties including points on their licence or mandatory speed awareness courses.

This is indeed outrageous behaviour. But the mention of a speed awareness course as an appropriate response is objectionable. Surely it's clear this falls far below the required standard and amounts to dangerous driving? Further evidence of problems with current law.

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The Crown Prosecution Service have launched a consultation asking for views on how they prosecute ‘gang’-based offenders and whether guidance is needed on musical expression in prosecutions.

To take part in the consultation and read more here click here 👉 orlo.uk/a2uXe

For completeness I should also add that weapon DOES make a difference, as the starting point is higher for cases where a knife was taken to the scene. This is set in statute: Schedule 21 of the Sentencing Act 2020.

Sorry - *age, not she!

Man jailed for murder of man in Chelsea The victim, 28-year-old Omarkafi Sahal, died in hospital two weeks after being stabbed.

eg this 19 yo who got minimum term of 22 years recently for a stabbing: share.google/xVwbeyxlojRG...
Or this 23 year old who also got 22 years: share.google/YIPRvHLLYpna...

It's the she that was the issue - not the weapon. It's a general principle of sentencing that youth is a mitigating factor. The question is where the cut off should be. At present 'young age' for an adult in sentencing is 18-25.

TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari has double crash murder sentence reduced The Court of Appeal says Mahek Bukhari's sentence did not take into account her young age.

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'Stop crying,' officer tells rider caught texting in Leicester Police officers have been targeting dangerous drivers during an operation in Leicester.

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Presumed liability is only ever used in relation to civil liability. It is used in other countries, but not to establish criminal liability. The right to a fair trial, and presumption of innocence, does not allow conviction for a crime to be based on presumed liability.

But the law doesn't care currently if it's a conscious decision or not. Should it?

Causing death/serious injury offences are "constructed" on the underlying careless/dangerous offences and should, in theory, apply the same test. But I've found in my research that the competent and careful driver test in reality is often applied differently depending on the end result.

I agree.

But I'm finding that even lawyers with lots of experience in these cases simply don't see this. I get the sense that "driving" gets interpreted as "steering" (if the car doesn't divert from its path, it's all fine). The test is applied very differently depending on the end result.

You might be right that it's not quite ideal. I think a discussion is needed to identify appropriate tests. For a while I had thought that the current law is as good as we could get, if not perfect, but I increasingly see the test of the competent and careful driver just not working.

Peer suspended for raising speeding fines with police chief - BBC News Baroness D'Souza sought to influence Met chief Sir Mark Rowley, a Lords report found.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good. But should be expelled not just suspended.

Clearly she needs to be chauffeur driven all the time due to an inability to follow the law. But that should come out of her own pocket - not at taxpayers' expense!

‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions? The long read: As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse

"Over the past decade, a parallel criminal justice system has emerged in England and Wales, staffed by lawyers who specialise in privately prosecuting crimes, and former police officers who investigate them." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Another day, another report of a road death which raises a number of issues identified in my report Behind the Headlines: Sentencing after fatal crashes:
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👉'shameful' delays
👉lack of lifetime bans for drivers who have shown themselves to be a danger to the public

Behind the Headlines - Sentencing After Fatal Crashes - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking

I spent the summer engrossed in media reports on sentencing for causing death offences. Yesterday I was given the opportunity to present my findings at the Houses of Parliament.

I hope that my report is helpful to those interested in the law relating to road death:

appgcw.org/resources/in...

Have they not see Lupin?

I've since seen a comment on Facebook that the driver will be prosecuted for dangerous driving. Not confirmed.

'Horrific' moment car crashes into Leicestershire beer garden CCTV footage shows the

Not once is the driver of the Range Rover mentioned.

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The one driving offence blamed for 12 per cent surge in penalty points Figures revealed drivers in Britain received 9.61 million points in 2024, up from 8.55 million during 2023

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Anyone who thinks that they have a 'right' to drive, should not be in Parliament. Criminals, generally, should not be in Parliament.

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It's official—traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming, and they will change the way we drive forever What are the colors of a traffic light? Red, yellow, and green, right? We all know that red means stop, with yellow we slow down, and when it’s green we can

Traffic lights with a new white light have been proposed in the US to allow automated vehicles to control traffic flow.
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US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ software

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Cranfield University to close forensics department - BBC News One student studying forensic investigation says it is no longer the course she signed up for.

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@ctmccartney.bsky.social

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
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