Bloody madness...so sad.

[wafflycat]

The driver of the 4X4 was found to be clear of drink & drugs after tests...

This is one of those cases where, it seems to me, it isn't the fault of the driver.

 

[Paulus]

Stoopid dad....feel sorry for him because he will have to live with his stupidity....

I don't feel sorry for him. He put his child knowingly in a place of danger and unfortunately the worst happened. The man is a fool of the worst kind. He will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life and suffer the consequences.

 

[simonali]

I know it's hindsight and all that, but surely it would've made more sense to leave the quad bikes wherever they were and go get them in the morning?

There is a mobile phone shop in Frome that, until very recently, was giving away these things with certain contracts. I did wonder whether this story had anything to do with the offer coming to an end.

 

[domtyler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7680117.stm

Nine month suspended sentence.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

I feel sorry for him actually. I hope God will forgive him and help him find peace.

 

[domtyler]

I just cannot, can not, understand what could possibly have been going through his head at the time.

 

[Keith Oates]

It seems the real sentence will be much longer!!

 

[cchapman]

I think you're being overly sentimental. Admittedly she was sacrificed to her father's vanity, but she was only a seven year old girl. Yerss, very sad.

 

[Dayvo]

I think you're being overly sentimental. Admittedly she was sacrificed to her father's vanity, but she was only a seven year old girl. Yerss, very sad.

I'm not a parent, but even I find that comment incredibly insensitive, at best!

 

[CopperBrompton]

No sentence a court could have given him will come close to the knowledge that he was responsible for his daughter's death.

 

[wafflycat]

That is if he actually accepts that he was responsible..

 

[Rolling Thunder]

I'm not a parent, but even I find that comment incredibly insensitive, at best!

Not when you take into account all the other injustices that go on ignored. The death of a 7 year old girl (though sad) is tame in comparison.

 

[PaulB]

I think you're being overly sentimental. Admittedly she was sacrificed to her father's vanity, but she was only a seven year old girl. Yerss, very sad.

What an ignorant thing to think. You need a check up from the neck up.

 

[Crackle]

Not when you take into account all the other injustices that go on ignored. The death of a 7 year old girl (though sad) is tame in comparison.

Whilst taking your point, once you start ascribing values to lives you're on a rocky road. No life is more or less value than another nor can one life be truly measured against many.