Nurse runs over Ex when drunk and avoids jail

[poo at Paul's]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11758127/...

Cannot believe what she'd have to have done to get an actual custodial sentence.

Ahhh, so her defence was "I've never bene so drunk as that" ...
I wonder if it was on a strike day!

[carreauchompeur]

I do read some staggeringly lenient sentences these days. Too drunk to remember? Oh, that’s OK then.

[poo at Paul's]

The CCTV from the back of her car shows she had to steer sharply left to run him down! Not that pissed then!

And apparently "highly thought of by her sic employee ("er"). Oh, yeah she's a proper asset to the NHS, a genuine Angel.

[dudleybloke]

Equality in action again ffs.

[gotoPzero]

You can pretty much do what you want in a car these days the law is so weak.

The young lad who ran over and killed 2 guys in his dads car after smoking weed all night is one example that springs to mind.

Keeps getting caught over and over again but still no jail time. After that case he was caught driving again (whilst banned), caught in possession of drugs and assaulted someone. After all that he then skipped bail. The courts reaction.... they wrote strongly worded letters to him (this is not a joke).

Both parents are police officers....

[Biggy Stardust]

Yet if he'd punched her he'd have been locked up. I love equality.

[irc]

Yes but she is a nurse. Saved us all during Covid. Surprised her ex wasn't made to pay for the damage to her car

[BabySharkDD]

Biggy Stardust said:

Yet if he'd punched her he'd have been locked up. I love equality.

He could identify as a drunk female nurse and get away with it

[cuprabob]

BabySharkDD said:

Biggy Stardust said:

Yet if he'd punched her he'd have been locked up. I love equality.

He could identify as a drunk female nurse and get away with it

(Thurdsay @8pm)

[mac96]

gotoPzero said:

You can pretty much do what you want in a car these days the law is so weak.

The young lad who ran over and killed 2 guys in his dads car after smoking weed all night is one example that springs to mind.

Keeps getting caught over and over again but still no jail time. After that case he was caught driving again (whilst banned), caught in possession of drugs and assaulted someone. After all that he then skipped bail. The courts reaction.... they wrote strongly worded letters to him (this is not a joke).

Both parents are police officers....

The legal issue is not specific to vehicle related stuff though; the fundamental problem seems to me to be that you can assault someone in a way that the attacker knows could easily lead to death (running them down with a car, hitting them on the head with a baseball bat, stabbing them) but you cannot be charged with attempted murder (if you are lucky and they don't die) for lack of proof of intent to kill. Pure chance that these are not murders.

Of course other offences are available, as here, but they do not have the same serious sound to the public as (attempted)murder.

Meanwhile other attackers who do something which they genuinely and not completely unreasonably thought would not kill, but which unluckily does, can get charged with murder. The single punch cases for example. And yet (IMO) their crime is lesser than the first group.