A policeman from Newcastle has been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving after hitting a 16 year old girl who walked into the road in front of him.
The policeman was doing 94mph in a 30mph limit without his blue lights and sirens, hence the dangerous driving charge, but he was on duty and accelerating to catch up with a car that had been flagged up on his ANPR.
PC John Dougal has been remanded until the 1st of May when he will be sentenced and the judge has already told him that he’ll be going to prison.
While it was a serious error – and evidently a criminal error – to not use his lights and siren, he was a qualified advanced police driver and the girl stepped into the road in front of him. Contrast this case with the unqualified, non-advanced driver, Lord Ahmed, who ran over and killed Martyn Gombar whilst texting from his mobile phone at 70mph – Lord Ahmed was given a 12 week sentence and served only 6 weeks.
Will PC Dougal be back home halfway through June? Will he bollocks. There’s one rule for politicians and one rule for the rest of us. PC Dougal will be made an example and locked up for a couple of years while Lord Ahmed walks free after committing the same crime under far worse circumstances because he’s a Liebour politician. Ahmed even went on to threaten a terrorist attack on the House of Commons and still he’s not behind bars.
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As far as i’m concerned PC Dougal behaved in a reckless and hot-headed manner, which led to the death of a 16 yr old. He should serve ten years.
However, Lord Ahmed should be in the cell next door, for the same duration.
yeah, if i smash your head in with a ball pein hammer i go away for 16 years but if i do it with a car it will only be about 2, max and i will have the mortifying shame of being in a low security prison too