A police officer's son who killed two men while drug-driving is being sued for more than £200,000 by one of their families.Hang on..? Surely this isn't..? Yes. It is.
Magistrates spared Mr Coopey jail when he appeared in court and imposed costs of £105 which they said his parents could pay, but that the teenager should do chores around the house to make up for it.
However, Mr Imi's wife Sarah has since launched a civil action against Mr Coopey for compensation over the death of her husband, who leaves behind three children.
It was understood that Mr Shackley's family is also suing.
The best of British luck to you both, since British justice has failed you so abysmally.
Actually ended two lives while on drugs and didn't do to jail? And the magistrate suggested chores as a punishment? Did I just read that right?
ReplyDeleteSo if there's someone I really don't like, I can just get smacked off my tits and run them down, as long as I clean the toilet and make the beds after?
Jeez!
There is nothing to be seen of the vile creatures inhabiting dark, muddy plodwater. Only surface ripples.
ReplyDeleteIt is my view that one of the worst things that can happen to a society is that it becomes a society of vigilantes. I hold to this view because all too often vigilantes can behave in monstrously unjust ways, targeting the innocent or merely those who give the impression of being 'different'.
ReplyDeleteIn order to hold back the monster that is vigilantism there is a need for a justice system that the public can have confidence in, a justice system that properly punishes those who commit serious offences but also one that is tempered with mercy when appropriate. Sadly in Britain at present we have neither. Instead we have a justice system that punishes those who voice forbidden words or opinions with all the severity of a judge presiding over the Salem witch trials but which fails to impose the necessary harsh sentence in a case where a drugged up police officer's son basically walks free with zero consequences. This is the sort of monstrously unjust and incomprehensible sentence that gets hotheads thinking about vigilantism with all that that path entails.
I hope that the relatives of the victims of this scumbag win their case and leave him with a bill that he will never forget and which will follow him all his life.
Bucko, no, you'd have to have an appropriate father, too
ReplyDeleteIf you want to kill someone and get away with it, use a car.
ReplyDeleteIt's the legal system that made this appalling miscarriage of justice: surely it is extremely naive to imagine the civil courts will be any different.
ReplyDeleteAm I a cynic, or a realist?
Amen to that.
ReplyDelete"So if there's someone I really don't like, I can just get smacked off my tits and run them down, as long as I clean the toilet and make the beds after?"
ReplyDeleteOnly if your parents are in the police farce and thus you are covered by their protected status.
I'm curious as to why nobody reported the sentence at the time as "unduly lenient" - or was it "the wrong type of crime"??
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ReplyDeleteCoincidental responses from the blog's resident plod, PC Penise and WC Jaded.
Nemesis. Bearing in mind that this scum's father is a police officer I'd say that it's not so much the wrong sort of crime but the wrong sort of offender. Yes I agree that the original sentence in this case was unduly lenient and I'm surprised that it was not followed up as such.
ReplyDeleteSuch a monstrously lenient sentence will I'm afraid cause a lot of people to suspect that the offender has got off lightly not because of any positive virtue on their part but because as the offspring of plod he's a protected species.
"Did I just read that right?"
ReplyDeleteYup! 'One law for all', right..?
"It is my view that one of the worst things that can happen to a society is that it becomes a society of vigilantes."
It's what the police were set up to prevent. Someone (I'm looking at you, Home Sec!) should remind them of that.
Frequently, if necessary.
"If you want to kill someone and get away with it, use a car."
Or a lorry. I bet HGV drivers get even more leniency in the current climate!
"...surely it is extremely naive to imagine the civil courts will be any different."
I can imagine the victim's relatives have been told differently by...well, the people they have employed to take the case forward! 🤦♀️
"I'm curious as to why nobody reported the sentence at the time as "unduly lenient"..."
Probably realised the fix was in as Farenheit211 suggests and it was a wasted effort. We'll have to hope the next thing little Max collides with is a large and unyeilding tree.