Tuesday 8 August 2023

You're Right, Judge...

...six years and eight months for this really is no sentence at all:
A passenger in the Audi told police that he and Dancs had been drinking and had taken cocaine as it was Dancs’ birthday that day, the court heard. Dancs, 28, who had minor injuries, was found to be almost two-and-a-half times the legal limit for alcohol and drugs. Two bottles of vodka, one of which was empty, and a small bag of cocaine were found in the Audi.
Judge Simon Medland KC said: “No sentence any court could ever impose should be considered as a measure of Olivia Riley’s life and its tragic, appalling, needless and avoidable end.”

Of course, it isn't even six years anyway, is it? 

Dancs will have to serve half his prison sentence and was disqualified from driving for five years and four months.

Yes, I'm sure he'll be a capable driver in five years time... 

5 comments:

KJP said...

Don't forget the Judge has to follow sentencing guidelines.

Clarissa said...

We'll be deporting him back to Hungary once he's released, right? #rhetorical

ivan said...

25 years hard labour might be the correct sentance or better still the gallows to encourage the others.

Anonymous said...

If/when I'm king-of-the-world ...

The judge, and family, has a new "chauffeur" and is, in fact, banned from driving themselves.

Actions 'should' have real and personal consequences, not just for everyone else 'except' "the elitists" making them.

(Failing that, I'd settle for and festive tandem piano-wire street-furniture display, judge and miscreant swinging gaily in the breeze).

JuliaM said...

"Don't forget the Judge has to follow sentencing guidelines."

Yes, 'guidelines'. We know what's said about those, don't we?

"We'll be deporting him back to Hungary once he's released, right? #rhetorical"

If only!

"25 years hard labour might be the correct sentance or better still the gallows to encourage the others."

It's a start...

"Actions 'should' have real and personal consequences, not just for everyone else 'except' "the elitists" making them."

Spot on!