kim_harding ✅Jul 26, 2024

Sentence for driving while banned after killing six people: 150 hours unpaid work, 12 months supervision and a restriction of liberty order for four months between the hours of 7pm – 7am. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-driver-12828178

Sentence for planning to stop traffic in a peaceful protest trying to save the world: four years in prison.
https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535

These sentences are the wrong way around, there is something very wrong with the UK.

#FuckCars #ClimateEmergency #NoJustice

Why Glasgow bin lorry crash driver Harry Clarke was not jailed over new charge

The 60-year-old was caught driving without a licence just nine months after the tragedy which claimed six lives. We explain why he was not jailed at Glasgow Sheriff Court today.

Glasgow Live
Show threadMike Knell

@kim_harding This story is seven years old. And the guy was not actually on trial for the six people - he had already been found not culpable for that as medical evidence had agreed with his assertion that he'd blacked out.This trial was about the driving while banned part alone -- the justice system isn't actually supposed to be the vengeance system, and while what he did was pretty damn reckless it didn't lead to any accidents. You're being a little dishonest in conflating the two.

What public purpose would have been served in imprisoning this guy, bearing in mind that in the past "lack of intelligence" had been one reason he didn't get prosecuted over the bin crash?

It's possible to think four years for the other stuff is ridiculous, which it is, while also thinking that pulling up a seven year old story to make... what sort of point, exactly? is also dishonest.

Jul 28, 2024 at 11:51amWeb
Show threadMike KnellJul 28, 2024
@kim_harding PS yes I also know he’d failed to disclose a previous blackout to the DVLA, and that was presumably an aggravating factor when sentencing.