The bus driver who admitted being under the influence of drugs when he killed nine-year-old Ada Bicakci in a crash in Bexleyheath has been pictured for the first time.
Oh? Let's see then!
Police have released a custody image of Martin Asolo-Agogua after he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and driving whilst unfit through drugs (cannabis) on Tuesday, April 22. The 23-year-old from Nunhead had been up all night at a social event when he crashed the bus into Ada and her five-year-old brother on Watling Street on the morning of August 3 last year, a court heard.
The only real surprise here is that he pleaded guilty. Perhaps his brief fancies his chances with the new Home Office directions?
Asolo-Agogua was warned that he faces a prison sentence when he is sentenced in June. Judge Ben Gumpert KC said: “Looking at the sentencing guidelines, whether this is in the highest or middle level of culpability, even if that decision went in favour of the defendant the starting point would be a sentence of six years in prison.
And is that all? Well, maybe not...
“And there are, it seems to me, considerable aggravating features because he was driving a bus, under the influence of cannabis, and that he hadn’t slept the night before having been, as I understand it, at a social event.”
Oh dear, a rare judge indeed, this one. Let's have more like him!
9 comments:
The 23-year-old from Nunhead.....
He certainly lived in the correctly named place..
Apart from the death by dangerous driving offence, shirley the bus company should bear some of the responsibility in not ensuring the driver was fit to carry out his duties safely. Unfortunately, responsibility is like water, in that it tends to find the lowest possible level, so the managers and supervisors will be ok.
Penseivat
Diversity hire kills young girl
As long as the correct diversity box got ticked I'm sure they will be in the clear. In fact that could possibly be used in their defence. We didn't want to employ the useless git but we had already filled our quota of all the other races.
Stonyground.
"bus company should bear some of the responsibility in not ensuring the driver was fit to carry out his duties safely"
I understand it is considered to be racist to ask a black person what they are smoking. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14624173/Black-worker-smoking-awarded-tribunal-racist.html
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I don’t understand how they aren’t pursued by the HSE….
Ugh, will this nonsense never end?
Good point!
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