Incident in Glasgow - 6 feared dead :(

[glasgowcyclist]

Does he have any assets with which to settle?

He doesn't need any, his (employer's) insurers will pay out.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Yes I understand that. The suggestion was that people feel he should pay directly. I was examining the possibility and potential consequences of that.

Ta. I had originally written a second sentence: "I'm probably missing what point you're making" but deleted it before posting.

 

[Markymark]

The freedom part, certainly. Does he have a family though? If so, would removing all his assets create more victims?

That's the excuse often given by convicted criminals who assets are taken. Tough.

 

[Markymark]

And then we pay part of it back by having to support them. Pyrrhic victory.

Rather the victim takes his assets. How do you know that everything his family needs is owned by him and they would be left with nothing?

 

[Markymark]

I don't know, that is why I asked.

If they got divorced and she had bought nothing she would get half as hers. Why should this be different? Take away what is his which may be half. It may be little if she bought everything. Wife would still be left with half. Like a divorce except someone was killed.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Harry Clarke has appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court for sentencing for reckless driving of his car, 9 months after he killed six people with his bin lorry.

The PF earlier accepted (for reasons not yet known) his not guilty pleas to other charges of obtaining car insurance by fraud, making a false statement to obtain car insurance, and driving without a licence (it had been revoked on medical ground three months previously).

The sheriff did not impose a jail sentence and instead handed him 150 hours unpaid work in the community, ordered he be tagged for four months and banned from driving for three years.

None of this will be of any comfort to his earlier victims' families for whom it will be made clear what a deceitful, calculating, selfish and callous man Clarke is.

Edited to add link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39453847

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The legal system in Scotland is a joke

It's pretty shoot in the rest of the UK too when it comes to road crime.

 

[psmiffy]

It's pretty shoot in the rest of the UK too when it comes to road crime.

Is the judge now on their way to each of the victims' families' houses to piss through the letterbox?

I'm beginning to think that I am a bit simple - I just do not understand how they come to these verdicts/sentences

 

[Inertia]

True - but the Scottish system is made even worse by wide discretion given to PFs and the inability to bring a private prosecution.

I still dont understand why he wasnt prosecuted and even more why they werent allowed to bring a private prosecution.

 

[swee'pea99]

It beggars belief that an option for dealing with someone driving when unlicensed is to ban them from driving.

Well it's not like they'd be likely to commit the same/a similar offence again is it?

Or to put it another way, just what *do* you have to do behind a wheel to get sent down?

 

[arch684]

His ban should only start once he gets his license back,which should be never

 

[Jody]

Well it's not like they'd be likely to commit the same/a similar offence again is it?

Or to put it another way, just what *do* you have to do behind a wheel to get sent down?

Apparently the amount of poeple you have killed previously has little relevance.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

So he gets back on the road in three years then?

 

[uphillstruggler]

lets hope the fat toad dies of a heart attack before he does any more damage.

no shame, no guilt

absolute disgrace

 

[arch684]

Won't be still be unlicenced through medical unfitness?

No doctor in his right mind would pass him fit to drive