Kill a cyclist, hide the evidence, get two years

OT, sorry, but a worrying case I frankly can't understand at all.

With a jaw-droppingly inappropriate comment from the killer driver's father:

http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/forum/forummessages/mps/UTN/32895/URN/6/dt/1/srchdte/0/cp/1/v/8/sp/354210394236230352300

The original story:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Family-slam-jailed-trucker-who.5780942.jp

My God, that is horrible and shocking. It's pretty clear what the judge thinks of Mr Stubbs.

2 fucking years??!! What a horrific story.

horrific... words fail me

awful.

Very sad. This is another sad case why a change in law is needed.

I posted this before in it own thread but it go little attention.

http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2009/11/cycling-against-car-culture.html

Only getting 2 years for that is pretty disgusting.

Horrible. Utterly horrible.

this has made me really upset...and angry

mr stubbs=massive cunt.

Sounds like the jury were filled with a lot of doubt from the defense.

Agreed, the father is an insensitive prick.

only banned from driving for 3 years? such cunts who show such contempt for other road users should be banned for fucking life.

only banned from driving for 3 years? such cunts who show such contempt for other road users should be banned for fucking life.

too true. From link I posted above

1. Every physically competent adult has a right to drive, removable only as a punishment for serious or repeated criminal offending and, even then, only temporarily.
   
   

say it all really.

Had goosebumps reading this, really disgusted.

2-3 years? Whatever next? 6 months?

Shit! That's rough....

:-(

just read that thread and i'm utterly speechless. a totally contemptuous individual clearly born from another totally contemptuous individual. fuck me.

This bit really got me:

"a witness said Mr Spink, an experienced cyclist, had tried to cling on to the windscreen wipers and was thumping on the side of the truck to try and get his attention."

Yet the murderers old fella says he's innocent. WAC!

Shocking, can't believe the gall of the Father posting on the same thread..

Shocking, can't believe the gall of the Father posting on the same thread..

Parents often fail to see the foibles of their children. I can only presume this is the case here.

this is part of the silent culture that maintains status quo of cyclists being'lesser'road users. until there are clued up lawyers prepared to stand up and mention the insufficiency of short bans and fines for deaths, we will continue to be regarded as an insignificant minority interest and not equal in eyes of the law.

Even without Mr Stubb's contribution, the case is worrying. There is simply no way a motorist in a cab where the noise is the same as that in a saloon car, could fail to notice a cyclist beating the front of the vehicle. It couldn't happen. You'd hear it and see it. The driver had broken the law by driving without a break since 5am, the cyclist was an experienced tourer. On the balance of probabilities the cyclist was blameless.

The driver was asked 5 times by the cops how the bike could have ended up in the undergrowth. He had no explanation.

so what if you kill someone with your car you wil only get a coupple of years but if you do it without a car you will get many more, that seems to be the norm i keep seeing. Careless driving? BS!! I think manslaughter should apply whether you are in a vehicle or not.

I think a serious petition is needed to combat this continual crap.

Absolutely horrible.

He now finds himself in prison even though there was not a scrap of evidence against him. What happened to innocent until proven guilty.

Words fail me.

Emma Foa's killer lorry-driver was given a £300 fine (no ban), despite admitting he was looking at documents whilst driving.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2935510.ece

There have been at least two recent cases where drivers who killed cyclists weren't charged with anything:

The 3rd July was the first anniversary of the death of Berkshire cyclist Anthony Maynard, who was run over from behind in 2008 by a van driver who claimed in his defence that he didn't see Anthony. Another cyclist was seriously injured in the incident.

Reading Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute the driver.

http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1428