Heres an outcome for the taxi driver court case
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Defence lawyer Graham Walker said Palmer had since lost his taxi licence and the effects of the case coming to court had been "catastrophic" for his client.
He said: "I put the window down to shout at him to stop, but he just kept on going. He went to take another swipe at the taxi and I braked and he hit thin air and tumbled off his bike."
I'd love to see that defence applied in a murder trial .. "yeah, I did do it and all that but please be kind to me, I've lost me job and it's been a disaster having to come to court and everyfink".Defence lawyer Graham Walker said Palmer had since lost his taxi licence and the effects of the case coming to court had been "catastrophic" for his client.
John the Monkey said:Four months jail, 18 months disqualification. For INTENTIONALLY driving a car at someone else.
What is wrong with these bloody people? In what bizarre parallell universe does someone expect to drive a car at another person and NOT lose their taxi license and get taken to court?
To be fair, I don't think anything he said amounted to 'my client should not have been taken to court, or lose his license'. Sounds to me like just yer standard plea for mitigation/mercy, which is after all part of the defense brief's job.John the Monkey said:Four months jail, 18 months disqualification. For INTENTIONALLY driving a car at someone else.
What is wrong with these bloody people? In what bizarre parallell universe does someone expect to drive a car at another person and NOT lose their taxi license and get taken to court?
magnatom said:Heres an outcome for the taxi driver court case
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2465500.0.0.php
LLB said:Result
Catrike UK said:A bad one, he got four months when he should have got 5 years.
swee said:fact[/I] of imprisonment, regardless of the time, would help focus the minds of all drivers on the inadvisability of using your vehicle to bully cyclists.