HE should go to jail for the rest of his live for what he did
Campaign to get killer drivers
· Date: 2003-04-30
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When British driver Gary Clarke killed three-year-old Isobel Appleton hours after snorting heroin, the case touched off a nationwide campaign to rid British roads of killer drivers. Clarke had 93 previous convictions - including 19 for driving while disqualified and nine for drink-driving - and had served several jail sentences of three and six months for driving while banned.
There's been massive support for the Evening Mail newspaper's "Justice
for Isobel" campaign aimed at very tough sentences for hard-case drivers.
One driver, Ian Carr, has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years imprisonment
after being convicted of killing six-year-old Rebecca Sawyer of Ashington and
seriously injuring her sister, Kirsty, and father, Steven. Recently, Home Secretary
David Blunkett raised the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving
from ten to 14 years. But now, politicians, and the media, are campaigning for
more. Transport Minister John Spellar spoke during a 90-minute April 30 Commons
debate to discuss Home Office Minister Lord Falconer's pledge that killer drink
or drug drivers will face indeterminate sentences. Clark had received just five
years in jail and a ten-year driving ban for Isobel's death, despite admitting
to a similar charge in the past. Read
Birmingham.co.uk article
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T bone, on Tuesday, 08. May 2007 at 03:12 PM
Eric, on Thursday, 28. February 2008 at 08:37 PM
If your drunk, flying high on coke, shooting up on heroin or maybe your rich like Paris Hilton is and don't deserve to go to jail, whatever your weepy eyed sob story is (provided its true) the system always falls for it and justice(whats that?) will slice your jail time in half. Coke head snortdrive murderers deserve twenty years hard labour, not a cushy stint in a hotel somewhere with all the mod cons.
