Driver gets 4 1/2 years for crash paralysing two young girls

Out in 2 years do you think?

He claimed he was making a last second turn down into Little Harrowden but the dash cam showed he was actually chasing another car. I know the road well as I used to live just round the corner.

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/graphic-content-dangerous-driver-who-caused-crash-that-paralysed-two-young-girls-jailed-for-four-and-a-half-years-1-7404656

Only disqualified from driving for four years as well. I think some offences should carry permanent driving bans.

Only disqualified from driving for four years as well. I think some offences should carry permanent driving bans.

Ridiculous. I bet he felt such a big man chasing a woman in his huge car. Out in 2 years for sure. Destroyed the lives of the victims and ruined his own.

All over somone getting cut up at roundabout. Sigh.

Only disqualified from driving for four years as well. I think some offences should carry permanent driving bans.

One of the thing various groups have been pushing for.

In many ways the custodial sentence is inconsequential.

In this case and others such as Jasmine Chan and Eric Codling the drivers have shown that they should never be trusted again to have a licence .

Out in 2 years do you think?

 

He claimed he was making a last second turn down into Little Harrowden but the dash cam showed he was actually chasing another car. I know the road well as I used to live just round the corner.

 

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/graphic-content-dangerous-driver-who-caused-crash-that-paralysed-two-young-girls-jailed-for-four-and-a-half-years-1-7404656

I think it's quite typical of our current sentencing limits, and just law in general. There isn't any kind of logic for crime/punishment.

I was sickened when I heard the sentence for this on the radio, especially because of the fact there was footage. Without dash cams, people can say what they like and it's 50/50 often what the real truth is. 2 years for driving 2 tonnes of incredibly powerful machine in that manner? It's joke.

What a sad story for the victims in this. Their entire lives ruined.

Should never drive again and given 20 years,big bully by the look of it.

It does make me angry that for certain offences, driving and animal cruelty are two that spring to mind, the penalties are rarely severe enough. I'm not a 'hang 'em & flog 'em' person, but if were the victims' family, I'd feel ****** off and let down by the criminal justice system.

I'm not a driver, but while waiting for busses or out and about, I regularly see drivers on their mobile phones, or driving recklessly - thinking that they're in their own little safety zone, protected by being inside a car - and sod everyone else. Not on.

It does make me angry that for certain offences, driving and animal cruelty are two that spring to mind, the penalties are rarely severe enough. I'm not a 'hang 'em & flog 'em' person, but if were the victims' family, I'd feel ****** off and let down by the criminal justice system.

Just a little.

There are many organisations (Brake is one) who campaign to seek the increase in the penalties for such incidents - the offence he admitted is a relatively new one, it has been considered by the Court of Appeal on a few occasions in the context of appeal against sentence.

In this case he should not have been afforded any great credit for his guilty plea, given it took 3 days of court time for the judge to decide his version of events was nonsense (a newton hearing).

If people think the sentences available for this type of incident are inadequate can I suggest that they write to an MP or join one of the groups who argue and call for greater penalties as opposed to coming on here and demanding 20 year sentences.

I don't know if what happened before the crash is in the public domain as I haven't read up on the background, but just from looking at the footage, it looks as if he undertook another car (who was waiting to turn right?) before turning right.

I haven't really got a view on the length of sentence, as whatever it is doesn't alter what happened to the victims. He's probably very repentant now, but again that wouldn't help the two kids.

In an ideal world dangerous drivers would be identified and banned before they cause injury to others. However, that would require more pro-active action by the police, which would require more manpower and therefore cost more. It is often the case that these drivers are not identified until after they have caused harm. By then, it is too late to help the victims.

In these situations, the driver should be banned for a much longer period, IMO. Not necessarily as a punishment, but primarily to keep a dangerous driver off the road. IMO, such a driver should only be considered to get a licence back if they can demonstrate that they have reformed and now have a suitable temperament to justify being allowed to drive again, ie that they don't have a tendency to lose it when aroused. If it's possible for an independent psychologist (or whatever the appropriate specialist is) to do this (at the driver's cost) then after a suitable period, then maybe he can get a licence back. If not, then he stays banned. This is too important to allow known dangerous drivers to be behind the wheel.

you have to wonder what his intention was if he had actually caught the car he was chasing that day.

I think the father was saying that the right verdict had been reached given the sentencing restrictions the judge had and that the driver had initially denied he was chasing another car till the dash cam evidence showed otherwise

Outside court, the victims' solicitor, Richard Langton (right) said there was "huge disparity" between the five year maximum sentence available in this case and that for death by dangerous driving, which is 14 years.

Mr Langton said he felt that had the judge been able he would have given Nay a longer sentence, but she was "constrained by the law".

and

Speaking outside court, the girl's father Roberts Raibais said Nay 'should be banned from the road'.

their solicitor again

"Their world has been turned upside down. He will serve time behind bars for his crime, but sadly no sentence can undo the damage caused."