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My favourite is a guy on twitter saying to hang and deport him. Those bloody foreigners, being born here, it's all their fault, deport them.

Hang and deport seems like a waste of time unless you don't want bloody immigrants taking up our British graves or something.

"Judge says Charlie Alliston has shown 'not one iota of remorse' as she considers jailing him next month."

https://twitter.com/EmilyPennink/status/900372929501908992

hang then deport... logical.
also yeah, birthplace doesn't generally seem to factor much into the "go back to where you came from" sentiment (surely you've experienced..?)

He's really not helping himself much, and all eyes will be on the judge to make some kind of example of him, especially after the barrage of negative press he's about to receive. He might have some contemplation time at Her Majesty's pleasure.

Judge says Charlie Alliston has shown "not one iota of remorse"

“I feel bad due to the seriousness of her injuries but I can put my
hand up and say this is not my fault.”

This was said before she died.

Isn't showing remorse a form of admitting guilt?

In the Guardian report I noticed the line
After the verdict the court head that Alliston is suffering from depression and was treated for PTSD in the wake of the collision.

Which resonates somewhat with this https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/engineering-student-who-killed-man-while-speeding-in-sports-car-spared-jail-because-he-has-survivors-a3589326.html

(Driver doing 60 in a 40 zone racing another car hit and killed someone who was crossing at an "unsafe" place)

Judge Morris, who had previously indicated the student would be jailed after admitting causing death by careless driving, agreed to suspend the sentence because of Michta’s psychiatric issues following the crash.

Alliston was riding a fixie - a fixed-wheel bicycle with no front brake used by track racing cyclists - across a junction on Old Street, Shoreditch, last February when he said he saw HR consultant Mrs Briggs step out into the road while looking at her phone.

Mrs Briggs' family said they plan to campaign for tougher cycling laws to protect pedestrians.

Wouldn't they be better off protecting pedestrians by speaking about the dangers of walking onto the road while looking at your phone?

Well, quite. All the press are suggesting he wrote stuff after Mrs Briggs died. It's quite subtle.

Part of me wishes @velocio would reinstate @CharlieFxckingA's comments on here as a warning to others, but then I consider the family's feelings and I'm not so sure.

Press really didn't have to go to a lot of work to paint him as being a dick.

tougher cycling laws to protect pedestrians

ffs

More of a join the dots exercise.

Skipping two dozen pages, but saw the biased broadcasting crap story flash up

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41028321

Mrs Briggs' family said they plan to campaign for tougher cycling laws to protect pedestrians.
Mr Briggs described the trial as "gruelling and painful".
He added: "Out of this senseless carnage, I shall try to bring change to the law and change to attitudes.
"Perhaps in this way I can honour my wife."

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What could be tougher? Their case was manslaughter. Murder for all cyclists!

Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen

Part of me wishes @velocio would reinstate @CharlieFxckingA's comments on here as a warning to others, but then I consider the family's feelings and I'm not so sure.

They were the dumb outpourings of someone who appeared to be in a state of shock.

Whether or not he has shown remorse, understood a life has been lost, had time to have changed the outcome, etc... that wasn't really in those posts he made.

His posts were him processing shock, publicly, mixed in with a degree dumb bravado.

The merits of the case and the incident should be judged on the evidence and eye witnesses. Not on the rantings of a fool.

He looks like a RIGHT cunt in that bbc article

The merits of the case and the incident should be judged on the evidence and eye witnesses. Not on the rantings of a fool.

Agreed.

This

and 18 years old - they do some dumb stuff.

It's a bit of a catch all, isn't it.

I had a brief pm convo with him and his attitude seemed to be based on what police at the scene said to him, ie it was a 'usual accident' and nothing more would come it, unless 'she' pursued it after getting better...

It's all fairly sad really. Almost the same day I was in collision with a ped. Though mine was at walking pace and she bounced straight up, but I still think how our situation could have been reversed quite easily.