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Statue of Justice, Old Bailey (licensed CC BY 2.0 on Flickr by Ronnie Macdonald).jpgDriver who killed cyclist while doing 71mph in 30mph zone jailed
A driver who was doing 71mph in a 30mph zone was jailed at Snaresbrook crown court on Monday after admitting causing death by dangerous driving. Parvez Rahman hit cyclist Ashad Ahmed in Commercial Road, Whitechapel on November 24, 2014. Police said at the time that he had been seen racing another driver along the A13 moments before the collision.
Ahmed, a supply teacher, was hit as he cycled past parked cars on his way to his parents’ house on November 24, 2014. He died two hours later in the Royal London Hospital of head and brain injuries.
Rahman drove off after the crash, abandoning his car – but handed himself in to police the following day. The court was told that he had been “driving as hard as that car could have been driven” at the time of the collision.
Ahmed’s brother, Kawsar, was unimpressed with the four year sentence given to Rahman. He told the London Evening Standard that the motorist had shown no remorse for what he had done.
“I think the system has let us down. The sentence he got didn’t compare to what he did. He’s a scumbag.
“It just seems unfair in this day and age, the law is like this when there are so many accidents like this. My parents can’t comprehend how someone will just get four years for this. I’m glad my parents didn’t go to court to see his reactions. Words can’t describe them. He was smiling as he was being led out of court. The shocking thing is he showed no remorse. This guy is inhuman.”
Paul Jackson, defending, said that this was not the case. “He knows that he will never be forgiven for causing the death of the deceased. He will never forgive himself for doing it.”
Judge Nicholas Huskinson said that had Rahman been driving within the speed limit, there would have been time for him to slow down and avoid Ahmed.
“He was a man who was married with two young children and, on the behalf of his family, there is a victim impact statement before the court that speaks in high terms about what a grievous loss his death has been to the family.
“If someone drives at 71mph in a 30mph, effectively single carriageway, there is a substantial risk of danger and indeed of death.”
As well as the four year jail sentence, Rahman was also banned from driving for five years and ordered to take an extended test when that ban expires.
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It is a tragic travesty of justice and a reflection on one of the worst countries for protecting other road users. This type of driving - regardless of outcome - likely to endanger life, should be resulting in 10 - 20 year imprisonment
Would have done more time for kicking a hamster.
The government need to wake up and change these poor excuses for sentences, the law needs an overhaul there is no consistency in sentencing and four years won't deter scumbags from doing the same once out of prison.
Watching police traffic programmes I always see 'people' banned from driving getting chased by the police, then they get banned from driving. well that didn't stop them in the first place so I hardly think it will stop them doing it again. Driving bans should be replaced with much longer harsher prison sentences. Same thing with this case, If someone gets in a car and thinks, "The worst that will happen to me if I drive like a know and kill someone and rob a family of a father/mother/son/daughter etc... is a very short prison sentence and a driving ban" they will probably take the risk, they likely won't get seen by the police, I hardly ever see traffic police out and about these days. If the absolute minimum sentence was 10years would they decide to do the same thing? I would think (or hope) that they would certainly be less likely to drive like a dick and hopefully this may save a life or stop someone from receiving life changing injuries..
When does the driving ban start? when he goes to prison, so a one year driving ban? driving at these speeds in a 30 zone clearly shows no regard for anyones life and should be an instant lifetime ban. GPS devices should be fitted surgically so we can track every movement they make, and they shouldn't be able to travel over 30mph or it's back to prison.
I am so sorry for the family of the victim, and feel they have been dealt a great injustice.
If it was me running the country he wouldn't have had a second chance, he'd have been locked up in an off shore prison with no tv, no playstation and 8 to a cell. If people working for a living in submarines can work in small living quarters sharing confined spaces and sleeping in 3 or 4 up bunks then these scumbags can live in similarly confined spaces.
Road.cc - here is an opportunity for some investigative journalism: can you find out how many people get a lifetime driving ban, and what exactly you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban? And what kind of thing only gets a 5 year ban?
(I know someone who did a good study of what it takes for a doctor to be struck off (i.e. banned from practicing) for life for malpractice - the resulting study actually led to a change in policy, and more people getting longer bans from practicing as a docot)
So let me get this straight, the driver was sentenced to four years? In another article contrasting new Italian laws with ours, causing death by dangerous driving in the UK gets a MINIMUM of five years.
Have I missed something, can someone explain please?
I'm guessing because he managed to feign remorse sufficiently to con the twit in the high chair, and so had his sentence reduced.
No, the twit in the high chair just doesn't care. The courts DO NOT CARE about bike riders being killed. They see killing people with cars as being broadly acceptable. That's why the minimum sentence is only 5 years, which is a laughable sentence for actually killing someone.
Nope he'll be out in a few years and wont disclose the conviction on his insurance because it wont actually be checked unless he kills someone again.
tbh not sure why I even reading these anymore.
The UK loves cars more than it loves life.
What does Sharia say about this?
my guess is that he wouldn't be driving again - ever.
Truth is that most legal systems wouldn't let him continue driving, but the application of the law is the problem not necessarily the toolbox of laws that are available (whether it's imposing the maximum sentences or often even getting the police and prosecutors to charge someone at all).
The problem is that when he gets his license back, his insurance will be so expensive that I suspect he (like a significant number of drivers) will be tempted to just drive without it. Despite a large number of police ANPR cameras, uninsured/unlicensed drivers are a massive problem for all of us (not least the fact the drivers have little chance of being caught and very little to lose). Not sure what the answer there is but it seems that for many drivers, losing their license is both unlikely and easily worked around...and the workaround causes a downward spiral of criminal behaviour.
Must be dreadful for the families of those suffering from these awful incidents as the law just habitually fails to let them get any sense of justice. Four years in prison for the price of a life, and that 4 years will actually be less than 2 (spent in a cell with Sky TV and a Playstation), with a considerable amount of help on release that ordinary folk just wouldn't get. Tragic.
If someone causes an unlawful death of someone and then later decides to drive without insurance/license then I see nothing wrong with imprisoning them for longer and longer terms. It is a clear danger to have certain types of drivers allowed to drive on public streets - don't we have enough deaths through "accidents" without stupid/preventable deaths like this one?
How many people get gaol time after killing someone with a car let alone for driving without insurance, they get a few more points and crack on with normal daily life.
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What possible purpose does it serve society to let people like this ever drive again? To my mind, a lifetime driving ban should be imposed on anyone who causes death through a preventable (i.e. bad/illegal driving) road incident. He's already caused the loss of one person - how many will it take?
And his God-given right to drive is temporarily suspended, for a short period. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.