Luke McCormick - throw away the key

[JonnyHungwell]

Luke McCormick - wtf is he? This is the first I've heard of him. I gather he's a football chav and probably of low IQ.

[JonnyHungwell]

If we have cars, accidents will always happen - and people, including children, will die. Not nice, but the way it is.

[stevieq]

It'll be the same result as what happened to Lee Hughes the ex West Bromwich footballer, when he killed two pensioners and badly injurying a third person, then cowardly run away from the scene and hid for two days. I happened to past the scene of the accident on that night between Coventry and Birmingham, total carnage.

McComick will get sent down, maybe like Hughes for about 6yrs, then released after 3yrs for good behavior, he may even get to play for the prison football team (if he's a good boy), then on his release some stupid fucking football club owner will give him another chance in the football league, siting that he has paid his dues, and deserves another chance, just like Oldham did for Hughes.

But what about the families they have both destroyed, they dont get a second chance, they have a lifetime of misery.

If both of them had just been some 'ordinary' person, i dont think the treatment would have been the same.

[Sam Slater]

Though both are equally deadly, you cannot compare driving a car recklessly with carrying a knife. A car can be driven in innocence, there's no innocence in carrying a knife.

[Sam Slater]

[quote]I mean, the kids don't mean much to the establishment, but the money lost through not paying his insurance will[/quote]

To prove this you'd have to convince us that a person who kills a child through reckless driving, but has insurance, gets a lesser sentence than one who gets caught without insurance, where no child has been killed.

I think you're off your trolley.

[crofter]

"Drink driving is not an accident."

No it is an accident waiting to happen, unfortunately a lot of people don't learn this lesson until people have been seriously injured or as in this case basically murdered ... I guess some of them think of it as one big thrill until the shit hits the fan.

[diplodocus]

unlikely, the sentences will be set by a judge who is more likely to be harder on a 'public figure' to send a message

Hughes only killed one person by the way and got six years and drink driving couldn't be proved, he got extra for legging it

at the time max sentence was 10 yrs, it's now 14.

looking at similar cases

'A drink-driver who killed a pedestrian was jailed for seven years. Matthew Brown, 22, from Stoke-on-Trent, admitted causing the death of Stuart Boulton, 53, by dangerous driving. The court heard that Brown?s VW had hit a taxi prior to the fatal collision. Brown also admitted driving with excess alcohol, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report the collision'

pretty similar sentence

now this case - if proven will depend not just on the driver being over the limit but the actual standard of driving, he may not have been driving like a nob, just been slightly over the limit, which automatically brings dangerous driving into play, plus there are two deaths not one

so a wide range of sentence could come into play, between 3 and 10 yrs depending on the actual circumstances, which none of us at this time know