Paige Blake, 24, was driving in her red Ford Fiesta while chatting on the instant messaging app when she clipped Freddie Oborne's bike on the A414 dual carriageway near Hatfield House.
Mr Oborne, from Hertford who was a keen athlete who competed in cycling events and triathlons, died at the scene at around a quarter past midday on Monday April 20 last year.Astonishingly, she actually got a prison sentence!
Blake, of Longwood Road, Hertford, pleaded guilty at St Albans crown court to causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for two and a half years.But wait...
Blake is likely to serve half of her sentence - 15 months - before being released on licence to serve the rest of her sentence in the community.
*sighs*
Judge Michael Kay QC banned her from driving for 4 years and 3 months.
It should have been a lifetime ban.
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On my way to do my big shop, about a six mile drive, I saw two oncoming drivers who were looking down at their laps. I've seen cyclists riding along while staring at their phones too though. There is a very satisfying GIF of one such idiot hitting a parked van.
Blake is likely to serve half of her sentence - 15 months - before being released on licence to serve the rest of her sentence in the community.
Nothing unusual about that. Good behaviour in the nick, 50% remission (though AFAIR it does depend on the length of the sentence, it can be one third remitted).
Should have taken a plane to the US. THat's a good way of avoiding justice (apparently)
Wow a judge sent somebody to prison! I went out in my car yesterday and in the space of half an hour my dashcam recorded people driving while on the phone, cycling on the pavement and the new electric scooters charging about on the pavement scattering pedestrians. No police anywhere and I long ago gave up contracting them with offers of video footage, they just don't want to know.
"I've seen cyclists riding along while staring at their phones too though. "
Me too. Some of them even on the road, and not the pavement!
"Nothing unusual about that."
All part of the great con trick that the Great British Justice System has become...
"Wow a judge sent somebody to prison! "
I suppose we should be surprised, in reality.
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