His Parents Must Be So Proud...

Today in her court in Reading assistant coroner Alison McCormick said the killings of Mr Shackley and Mr Imi were not an appropriate case to provide an unlawful killing verdict because she could not be sure, beyond reasonable doubt, that Mr Coopey was speeding at the time of the collision or that the cannabis he had smoked impaired his ability to drive.

Instead, the coroner provided a verdict of 'road traffic collision' in respect of both deaths - and added that she would be sending a report to the Highways Authority to see if future deaths could be prevented on the road.

Well, if parents did some parenting....yes.

Today outside the inquest into the men's deaths Coopey allegedly assaulted a press photographer, swearing and spitting at him before trying to rip the camera from his neck, before going on to tell the court to 'Google it' when claiming the cannabis in his bloodstream would not have impaired his driving.

Who is this yob? What sort of upbringing has he ha...

Oh! His parents are both police officers.

Adrian White, a police collision investigator, told the inquest his reconstruction of the incident led him to the view that the accident could not be avoided.

He was immediately challenged by lawyers for both victims' families who told him his science was wrong, to which Mr White countered 'science isn't wrong.'

Really?

The inquest heard Mr White's accident investigation reconstruction report said Mr Shackley would have been walking to the right of Mr Imi and would have been obscured from Mr Coopey's view at the time of the collision - significant because Mr Shackley was wearing a brightly coloured top and so would have been more visible.

Mr Buckett, representing the Shackley family, said: 'You make the assumption that Mr Shackley was to the right of Mr Imi at the time. Why did you make that assumption?'

Mr White replied: 'I have to give the benefit of the doubt to the driver.'

Mr Buckett said: 'Why is that? You're looking at this presumably in an impartial manner, not looking to give the driver any special treatment.'

But was he, we muse...?

Mr White said he had to consider whether a prosecution would follow his report and for the benefit of a theoretical defence team, he had to consider the worst case scenario and he said his report had been peer reviewed when it was suggested it was misleading.

Peer reviewed by other police officers, naturally!

The lawyer told him his accident reconstruction test had been flawed because it involved one police officer wearing dark clothing standing still at the side of the road - whereas in this case there were two people, moving and one of them had light coloured clothing on. He added: 'So, all three variables on the evidence that is now before the coroner, demonstrate that your scientific approach does not fit the facts of this case.'

Heh! I quite like this lawyer. He's outwitted the plod nicely/

Mr White conceded that based on the evidence given by Mr Coopey during the inquest, that was correct but he contested that Mr Coopey's evidence was unlikely to be correct, based on his calculations.

Wha..?

Mr Hinchliffe said to Mr Coopey: 'You asked to borrow your father's car. Your father gave you strict instructions as to when you were to return it.'

Mr Coopey replied: 'Which I don't normally obey.'

Lovely! And yet, knowing that, they still let him drive the car.

The magistrates put Coopey on a new youth rehabilitation order including supervision for 24 months, a 20-day 'thinking skills programme', a safe driving course, 100 hours of unpaid work, and a six month curfew.

I think that's something the whole family needs. And the police farce, too, for employing such hopeless people.

Yet Another Nail In The Coffin...?

A teenager who knocked down and killed two people with his father's Audi has had his conviction and jail sentence for driving while disqualified quashed.

Hang on..? Surely this isn't..? Yes. It is.

Today his conviction and sentence were overturned at Reading Crown Court.

And you won't believe why....

Judge Heather Norton argued that PCSO Gary Clarke, who saw Coopey in his mother's car on October 19, 2018, may have been suffering from 'confirmation bias'.

She ruled that it would therefore be unsafe to convict Coopey on that basis.

*speechless*

Today, Judge Norton decided that Mr Clarke had only seen Coopey for three seconds, calling it a 'brief glimpse' and said he had expected to see the teenager.

Judge Norton said: 'It is recognition evidence from an officer who was primed to be looking for a teenage boy driving that car, who was primed if saw a teenage boy driving that car to the assumption that that boy was Max Coopey.

'There is force in the submission that this is confirmation bias. It seems to us that for two 17-year-old boys to pay £70 to insure a car, it is unlikely they would have just thrown that £70 away and had Max Coopey drive the car in any event.'

I guess the judge is ignorant of teenage boys. Especially ones who have so far escaped all punishment for persistent offending, aided and abetted by parents who both serve as police officers, and who - incredibly - set up a videoed exercise to prove their spawn's innocence! The judge threw it out of court.

'It could well be the case that they did all of that with Max Coopey at his home address and Kieran Shepherd at his home address, and Max Coopey drove to collect his friend on his way to London, but that is not how this case has been put and it would not be safe for us to make that inference.'

But it's perfectly safe to put this arrogant little shit back out on the streets with no criminal record?

Once Is Happenstance, Twice Is Coincidence...

...the third time, they are spitting in our faces, aren't they?*

The son of a Met police sergeant who escaped prosecution for killing two men in a drug-drive smash, before walking free when he was caught with a cannabis stash at his parents' £1m home, has been spared jail for the third time after drug driving. Max Coopey appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court yesterday for his 'deliberate' failure to take a drug test after driving.

What is it going to take? Does he have to kill someone else before he's dealt with appropriately? 

District judge Samuel Goozee told Coopey: 'It is clear from your record that as a youth you were leading an anti-social life and associating with anti-social people.'You have developed an entrenched drug dependency and had turned to dealing not only to fund your own dependency but to earn money.'

Then why the leniency? He's been given chances to turn his life around and thrown them all back in your face... 

Judge Goozee commented: 'I now have learned you have an outstanding matter committed when you were a much older person.'

Wait, what? Either that's a typo from the 'Mail' journalist writing up this piece, or the judge is senile. Quite possibly, both! 

'The Crown Court may deal with you in a very different way than I do this afternoon. By law I am required to consider your age at the time of these offences.'

Goozee sentenced Coopey to an 18-month community order which would require him to complete 25 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days, a mental health treatment requirement and to be on a monitoring tag for six months. He was disqualified from driving for 36 months and the judge ordered him to pay costs of £100 and a surcharge of £95.

Paltry sentencing.  

Judge Goozee, after asking whether Coopey received benefits, commented: 'You are still receiving money from your parents.'

They should face some consequences, then. Maybe find themselves in the dock as accessories. 

*with apologies to Ian Fleming

There's Nothing 'Baffling' About This At All....

...we all know they look after their own:

Coopey, who lives with his parents in a £1 million house in Ascot, has shown no remorse.

Rather than apologising when he appeared in court earlier this year, he complained about how the crash ‘really has affected my mental well-being’.

Utter, utter scum.

The teenager’s father is a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police and his mother worked for many years as a schools liaison constable working with pupils in London.

Coopey had five previous convictions for drugs offences, robbery and common assault by the time he turned 18 earlier this year.

You'd think they'd hang their heads in shame, but they clearly have no remorse for the actions of their offspring either.

Approached for comment, Coopey’s mother said: ‘We don’t do trial by newspaper.’

You might not, but it's going to happen anyway.

Coopey is due to be sentenced on Tuesday for driving while disqualified and not having insurance in October last year while he was awaiting trial for the drug driving charge connected with the men’s death.

Ironically, he could face jail for ignoring the ban on getting behind the wheel.

If it was getting behind the wheel of his father's car, shouldn't the father also be done as an accessory?

I bet he would be, if he wasn't a cop...

Look Who's In Trouble Yet Again...

The fugitive son of a police sergeant is still being hunted three days after a court ordered his arrest over an assault.

'Fugitive son of a police officer, eh...? Surely not? 

Despite holding a warrant for his immediate detention, police have been unable to find 20-year-old Max Coopey who skipped bail and failed to appear in court on an assault charge on Tuesday.

God, I hope his parents put up the bail, and will now be liable! 

It was expected that officers from Thames Valley Police would go to the Coopey family’s £1 million home in The Burlings, Ascot, Berks. However, a spokesman for the Wimbledon court said today that Coopey had still not been found and arrested.

I smell a rat.

Not A Surprise Anymore…

The son of two retired Metropolitan police officers, who controversially avoided jail despite killing two people in a drug-driving incident, is to be arrested for the eighth time for refusing to attend court.

Yes, Reader, 'tis he, again. He's never out of the courts or this blog, is he?

Max Coopey, 22, was expected to be sentenced today for driving while disqualified after he indicated he would change his 'not guilty' plea. However, the young man apparently told his solicitor at the last minute that he now wished to maintain his denial and would not turn up to court. East Berkshire magistrates in Slough, Berks, immediately issued a warrant for Coopey's his arrest - the eighth issued to the man since his headline-grabbing first offence in 2018.

Even his brief is sick of him:  

Coopey's legal representation, Shehneela Ahmed, told the magistrates that the defendant's last minute decision not to attend court on Wednesday had left her 'professionally embarrassed.'

It’s puzzling where his obvious contempt for the justice system stems from, isn’t it? 

I Hope They Take You (And Your Failed Parents) To The Cleaners...

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. 

Leading A Charmed Life...

Yup, it's him yet again, escaping any justice once more...

Max Coopey, 20, from Ascot, Berkshire, stood before District Judge Samuel Goozee at Reading Magistrates Court on Friday after a police search of his home address on 31 July 2019 found more than 120g of herbal cannabis and two grams of cannabis resin in his bedroom at his parents' £1million home.

A lawyer defending him said Coopey had used the drugs to 'self-medicate' in the wake of the double-fatal crash in 2018, where he hit and killed two pedestrians while driving his father's sports car.

It's 2022. How on earth has it taken so long to come to court?

It's The DEI Version Of Max Coopey!

A drug-driver jailed for 16 years for killing a pregnant woman and her elderly father will not spend a single extra day behind bars for trying to cover up his crime. Nitesh Bissendary mounted a pavement in Leopold Street, Ramsgate, in his Alfa Romeo and fatally struck Noga Sella, 37, and 81-year-old Yoram Hirshfield in August 2022.

I remember this when it first hit the news, and thought it had gone rather quiet.

The 31-year-old, who had been out dealing cocaine in the two hours prior to the crash, fled the scene, leaving his dying victims and a seriously injured child who was among the family-of-five mown down. But instead of alerting emergency services, Bissendary chose to phone his parents, former Metropolitan police officer Barjunsing Bissendary, 59, and Sadhana Bissendary, 56, to help him remove evidence linking him to the death smash.

Well, well, well... 

Canterbury Crown Court heard that between them they removed items from the car, including drugs, as well as further drugs and paraphernalia from his bedroom at the family home in Highlands Glade, Manston. They also concealed Bissendary's mobile phone from police and removed its SIM card.

His stash of cocaine was actually retrieved from the wreckage while emergency workers were still tending to the injured and as Mrs Sella lay underneath the vehicle.

And what did they get? Well, Reader, merely a 12-month jail term suspended for 18 months.

At the parents' sentencing hearing Judge Simon James said they had acted out of "misguided loyalty", having been confronted with a "conflicting dilemma" of doing the right thing or protecting their son.

I can see why a Met Police employee would have a hard time understanding what 'the right thing' was in any situation, Judge...  

H/T: farmageddon via Twitter

Finally!

The son of two retired Metropolitan Police officers who avoided jail for killing two men in a drug-driving crash has been locked up for illegally driving his mother's car.

At last!  

Max Coopey, 22, was jailed for 12 weeks after he admitted driving his mother's blue Fiat 500 while disqualified. It comes after two dramatic hunts were launched for him after he failed to turn up for hearings in the case, leading to him being arrested for the eighth time for refusing to attend court.

And despite treating him leniently for the deaths, the court will pull out all the stops in defence of it's own will.  

This could be the first time that he serves a full custodial sentence despite having clocked up at least 27 offences on his record.

He probably has a worse record than anyone his parents ever arrested, 

More Foreign-Origin Magistrates 'Improving' Our Justice System...

Like a lot of people, the magistrate's remarks on the RAF vandals who ruined the Paddington Bear statue drew a snort of derision from me due to their virtue signalling sentimentality.

"Paddington Bear is a beloved cultural icon with children and adults alike. He represents kindness, tolerance and promotes integration and acceptance in our society.

"His famous label attached to his duffel coat says, 'Please look after this bear' but on the night of 2nd March, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for.

"Your actions lacked respect and integrity, two values you should uphold as members of the armed forces."

What I hadn't appreciated was that the magistrate, Sam Goozee, has already featured here - he's the magistrate who let off infamous scofflaw Max Coopey

H/T: Peter Wells via email