Drink and drug driver carried on to another pub after fatal collision with cyclist

Alliston had a legally accepted brake (but was one short), Alliston slowed significantly, Alliston swerved to avoid the deceased, Alliston could not have stopped /avoided collision after the deceased stepped back into his path even with a front brake fitted.

This incident is NOTHING like the Charlie Alliston case where he was done up like a kipper, this scumbag deserves a life sentence, the judge deserves to be fed to a pack of Wolves for perpetuating the leniancy shown to motorists that kill and maim and thus put us all in danger.

The judge clearly ignored that the killer tried to pervert the course of justice, ignored that this case should have being manslaughter (why the fuck didn't the CPS press for manslaughter with death by dangerous as a back up???) this judge had the power to hand out a sentence in line with the charge to reflect the heinous nature and yet did fuck-all.

Judges are directly culpable as to how matters pan out for all of us.

and yet the first agenda in the review on safety of cyclists is deaths of pds by cyclists, FUCK OFF!!!!!

I don't usually like to comment on these kind of stories but this is just ridiculous. He was over the limit, had cocaine in his system, hit someone on the other side of the road, and drove off for another drink, then lied about the circumstances repeatedly. I really don't know what you'd have to do to get say a 10 year sentence and further 10 year ban upon release. 

This wasn't a momentary lapse of concentration, or a slight misjudgement, he chose to drive when over the limit etc, how is that not a manslaughter charge? All those that keep bringing up the Charlie Alliston case for having a bike with no brakes therefore illegal, getting into a car/van when under the influence is equal (if not worse) than this. It really makes me sad that this has been treated so stupidly.

Where's the manslaughter charge, eh?

It's an appallingly light sentence, but in line with similar cases.

I'm looking forward to the Daily Mails article villifying drunk drivers, and Matthew Briggs using his new found celebrity to ask for better sentencing for drivers that kill.

FOUR YEARS!!??? HE FUCKING KILLED SOMEONE!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!!??

Quote:

Judge Rupert Lowe told Bills: "You drove away in a panic having no regard for the person you had hit. You lost concentration and allowed your van to veer across the road and straight into Mr Thorman's path. You should not have been behind the wheel of your van."

Not saying it's the case here, but I see on practically a daily basis, drivers using their vehicles to dish out some sort of punishment to others. No ones going to admit that in court though. The judge is a prick for this statement.

Seriously, what is the fucking point of even bothering to prosecute these killers? Pissed and drugged? Didn't stop? Repeatedly lied? And gets just over three years? He'll be out in a year or so with good behaviour.

Alfred Hitchcoxk was wasting his time with the plot of Strangers on a Train. Instead of persuading a stranger to murder his wife, the protagonist should have just done it himself with a fucking car.

There is about 4 or 5 various charges there and he Should have received a lot more time than he did. Another joke of a sentence.

I remember a story here in road.cc where a guy that was slapping women's asses while on bike he was sentenced in a life ban from cycling. I really cannot see the analogy here with this sentence...

One for Jesse Norman;

https://twitter.com/Jesse_Norman

I’m surprised he pleaded guilty with a jury of Kent drivers I would have given his chances of being acquitted at about 50/50

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/kentish-gazette-canterbury-district/20170...

I think this judge has a little history for lenient sentences in Canterbury. (hope the link works)

Judge says no sentence will compensate the family's loss.....so gives a really lenient sentence. Way to go dickhead.

Ffs. Ridiculously light sentence.

He'll be out in time to enjoy a pint or three on summer days in 2019.  How is that justice?

Why not a lifetime driving ban?

I would have thought that killing someone and not stopping should be an automatic lifetime driving ban if only to protect other people.

Try sticking a decade or two on that sentence and it might be somewhere approaching justice.