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Whilst I agree that jailing this driver is unlikely to make a difference to how he will drive in future, it remains that the message the sentence sends out is that killing a cyclist is nothing more than an inconvenience to a driver so long as they really didn't mean to do it.
The comments of the defending barrister are what really gets me though. "There but for the grace of God go I....the sort of accident that can happen to anybody" legitimises killing cyclists as just one of those things that happens nobody, not even the guy who took his eyes off the road for 9 seconds at 70mph is to blame.
Longer rant here http://icycleliverpool.co.uk/2013/06/21/its-friday/