Angry pedestrian who scared cyclist riding

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Norra problem

 

[legrandefromage]

''...Grey left the scene before the arrival of the emergency services and went to a supermarket to do her shopping. She was arrested the next day, and claimed that Mrs Ward had been cycling “at high speed” and that she was “anxious I was going to get hit by it,” so “flinched out” with her left arm to protect herself.”

But passing sentence, the judge told her she had given a “dishonest account in interview” and that there had been “not a word about remorse until today.”

While the trial last month heard that Cambridgeshire Constabulary were unable to “categorically” ascertain whether Mrs Ward had been cycling on a shared use path, the judge said today in his sentencing remarks that it was a shared facility.

CCTV footage shared by Cambridgeshire Constabulary showed Grey, who has cerebral palsy and is partially sighted, shouting at Mrs Ward, described by her widower as an “experienced and competent cyclist,” to “get off the f*ck*ng pavement.”

 

[legrandefromage]

 

[slackboy]

And here's the anti-cyclist take on the story [warning may cause anger

That article does nothing but allow the author to vent their prejudices without being troubled by facts.

It's also clear that recent changes to the highway code to clarify hierarchy of responsibility like the "Dutch ettiquette" seem to have passed her by.

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

The hierarchy is interesting seeing as peds kill more cyclists each year than the other way around.

 

[tintin40]

I don't care about this woman's problems. We all have them. Nothing gives you the right to course the death of anther person. The poor dead woman was no 'hard core' cyclist like in a couple of previous deaths involving cyclists. The convicted woman could quite clearly she the 77 yr old on her shopper bike and forced her in to the road either by force or by fear. 3 yrs is too short. I feel for the dead womans family.

 

[tintin40]

P.S.
I know this is a right wing country. And the people long for the return of the death sentence. But death for riding on the pavement is a little extreme. It was a £5 fine when I was a student. And the poor car driver in this accident. All because of one self righteous person who thinks they have sole rights to the pavement. Would she have done this to a wheelchair user??

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

I'm not remotely right wing and I support the reintroduction of the death penalty.

As for the rest of it, I agree.

 

[mk one]

Sad story.

I dont want to take the thread down this hole, but killing another person for whatever reason, is wrong.

 

[dyna-ti]

I support the reintroduction of the death penalty.

There have been 1336 appeals for people wrongly convicted, and while most aren't in the capital crime bracket, which would have received a death sentence, it shows beyond a doubt that the legal system can get it very very wrong.
This of course is the number of successful appeals IN ONE YEAR.

An acquaintance of mine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_case

Had we the death penalty there is no doubt Rab would have received it.
"The three judges presiding over Brown's 2002 appeal heard evidence which, in their summing up, prompted them to describe the arresting officers in Brown's case to be part of a "culture of corruption and a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice" "

So had we the death penalty, those corrupt police officers would have condemned an innocent man to die. There is no doubt in my mind many convictions where police corruption has fabricated the evidence, has led a number of people to be hanged when we did have it.
There is also the higher profile cases like the Guildford 4, Birmingham 6 or the Maguire 7. How many of those do you think would have been executed ?.
All these cases were littered with allegations of torture at the hands of the police.

There can be little doubt that if capital punishment was legal at the time of their trials, these men would have been sentenced to death. Even Lord Denning – one of the most prominent judges of the 20th Century – suggested that the Birmingham Six should have been hanged. And if they had been hanged, they would have joined Derek Bentley and Timothy Evans, among countless others, on the list of innocent people that have been executed in this country. And this is by no means the only late-20th Century case of its kind. Just last month, Shahidul Ahmed was convicted for the murder of Rachel Manning. Ahmed is almost certainly guilty, but his conviction comes 11 years after Manning’s boyfriend was wrongfully convicted for the killing. Barri White not only suffered the loss of his girlfriend, but he also spent six years in prison after being wrongly accused and convicted of her murder.