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Lord Ahmed has been jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving.

I can't stand the odious little man myself and would have liked to see him jailed for a lot longer, but I accept that it would have been very difficult to show a direct causal relationship between him texting and him hitting the other vehicle.

As things stand, he has basically been jailed for dangerous driving because he was texting prior to the accident which will hopefully send out a very strong message about the way that people doing similar things will be dealt with by the courts in the future.

Overall, this was probably the best posible outcome - I just hope that they don't wrap him up in cotton wool in some youth club/open prison like they did with Archer.

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Sorry, but it's an absolute travesty of justice. The man was texting whilst driving - fair enough. He wasn't caught for that though and happened to (innocently) become embroiled in a drunken man's accident some way down the road. He hadn't been texting for however many miles prior to the accident......Book him for the offence he did commit, not the possible offence he didn't. Absolute ******!

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It's a tricky one, not helped by the usual **** poor UK standard of media reporting.

 

I believe that the Police have stated that Lord Ahmed stopped texting 3 miles from the accident site, but at the 60mph he was supposedly doing, that's only 3 minutes away, not long when one might be reading a text! Was there any suggestion that he didn't take avoiding action that might have been reasonable expected of a fully concentrating driver?

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Sorry, but it's an absolute travesty of justice. The man was texting whilst driving - fair enough. He wasn't caught for that though and happened to (innocently) become embroiled in a drunken man's accident some way down the road. He hadn't been texting for however many miles prior to the accident......Book him for the offence he did commit, not the possible offence he didn't. Absolute ******!
He should have been booked twice then. Once for texting whilst driving whether he had an accident or not, and once more for the actual accident.

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The first one, yes, definitely. Why the second though?

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Sorry, but it's an absolute travesty of justice. The man was texting whilst driving - fair enough. He wasn't caught for that though and happened to (innocently) become embroiled in a drunken man's accident some way down the road. He hadn't been texting for however many miles prior to the accident......Book him for the offence he did commit, not the possible offence he didn't. Absolute ******!

 

Standard prosecution - peer or not. like this here.. Whether intentional or not the issue is the same. If he is a peer, he should be more sensible. As a politician, if one of his constituents were killled and the Family asked him to lobby on their behalf I am sure that he would encourage a sentence.

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Standard prosecution - peer or not. like this here.. Whether intentional or not the issue is the same. If he is a peer, he should be more sensible. As a politician, if one of his constituents were killled and the Family asked him to lobby on their behalf I am sure that he would encourage a sentence.

 

You're missing the point mate!

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You're missing the point mate!
I don't think so, what's the 'possible offence he didn't commit'?

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I must admit I find it a little hard to follow. His offence was txt'ing which lead to the charge of dangerous driving. I can't help thinking he would have gotten a much lesser sentence if the accident hadn't also happened. It seems to me that he's also being punished for the crash, for which he wasn't charged. Very good grounds for appeal as far as I'm concerned as the sentence appears dissproportionate to the punishment.

 

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