Hedley pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Brown to his severe injury, ** permanent impairment **
Fuck me... that's rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.
Hedley pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Brown to his severe injury, ** permanent impairment **
Fuck me... that's rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.
Violent idiot doing idiotic violent things to show just how much of a 'big man' he is.
Well there you go, 'big man', you've caused another person a brain injury...and yet I bet you still blame the other person for "getting in the way".
Edinbuger here.
They reported this in the local paper today, you know it's bad when the Edinburgh evening news was taking the side of the cyclist.
But then again Edinburgh drivers think they are above the law and riot when not catered to as God emperors of the city. Every time there's an improvement to public transport or cycling or pedestrian areas, they throw a hissy fit.
I'm sure that's a local phenomenon, it's not like every city everywhere claims they have the worst drivers (except the person who shares that fact about their city, who either doesn't drive or isn't too bad in comparison).
A braver person would claim something like "(bad) drivers are like that everywhere", but that would mean we need to overhaul the whole transport system instead of reminding specific cities of the traffic laws.
Do you know what are the charges?
Edit: he plead guilty but awaiting sentencing. Likely 2-4 years range.
The fucker belongs to jail. He's danger to society.
99% Of sane people wouldn't have to resort to violence about some shitty I-passed-before-you you-cut-me-off situation! How late was he going to be 1 minute extra?! Whoever was wrong intentional or not! Okay sorry calm down your tits have a nice day gtfo.. But why take it there!
It's never been a worse time to be a cyclist in the UK the amount of hard men who shout abuse at me is unreal, and i only go out on a Sunday for leisure. Never happens when I go out with a group though.
What's their problem? Cyclists on intersections don't allow the manly men to roam free on the road? Or they hurt their small pp big car energy? Or what?
I hate how much I can relate to this, thanks to having been a bicycling 12 year old girl.
I wish I hadn't seen this. Genuinely this needs a content warning.
I feel so badly for the victim. His life is over even if he technically survived.
Straight up attempted murder in my eyes.
Why were they out of their car anyway? Solid move, potential lethally injuring someone and then shuffle off. Great people, both of them, really.
People should loose their right to drive for this
That's grievous bodily harm. This fucker belongs in jail.
I don't believe in jail. Take away his license, make him pay Iain's bills for the rest of his life, and give him mandatory counseling.
You should be his counsellor. Good luck.
So he's clearly a threat to society and you think he should be loose while he's being counseled? What if he hurts someone else?
He should have a full time minder for the next three weeks (6-9 counselling sessions) to follow him around and make sure he doesn't. The minder should be a big burly government employee tasked with keeping him out of trouble. The minder should have extensive training in de-escalation skills, and a decent grasp of martial arts, just in case.
I think those three weeks would be quite humiliating and he wouldn't want to do it again.
And who's paying for that? Ideally it would be great but that sounds like at least 100x the budget of what we have now.
Scotland should take the money out of the road building and maintenance budget. Scotland doesn't need cars and Scotland doesn't need roads for cars. Cheaper to invest in public rail.
Roads got Scotland into this mess, quit building roads until the mess is fixed!
Driving? People should lose their freedom for 8-10 years.
People should loose their right to
drivebe a part of society for this
FTFY
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looselose their right todrivebe a part of society for thisFTFY
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.
Do you feel the guy who did this to the cyclist will be hit with attempted murder charges?
Unlikely, he will probably go with something like "I just wanted to topple him" and they will accept it and probably give him "causing injury by reckless behaviour" or sth like that
This guy should be locked up in prison for atleast a decade and the woman for couple years for leaving an injured person on the road. But they will likely anyways plead guilt and go with something like "I did not mean to push him that hard, I just wanted to topple him" bla bla. His shirt explains everything one needs to know; wears a shirt thay says England with a lion, lives in Edinburgh and probably wants immigrants out of UK. What a tool.
Top comment on the article, from "mrbmww":
The sad thing is,because he laid hands on the cyclist, Even if it was the cyclists fault.The driver will get done.
The actual fuck? He thinks it's sad that someone who takes another person, throws him violently onto the ground and leaves him unconscious and bleeding and drives off "gets done"? And that that somehow means that there is discrimination against motorists??
More info here https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/5582699/cyclist-brain-injury-road-rage-fife-driver/
Satisfying that he was found guilty.
That cunt of a woman should also be held accountable for just leaving the scene of a brain injury without helping.
They both deserve prison.
paywall for me, could someone copy paste here, I still have (naives) hopes that some justice has been done
and how do they break the reader mode: it loop back to the wall? It's the first time I've seen this
edit: the link in the post description worked, but I take from this that he's still walking free at the moment
Joseph Hedley became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking him at the cityβs Cowgate in September 2024.
Hedley, 39, left his vehicle and approached the innocent male, before grabbing him by the neck and violently throwing him to the ground.
The victim smashed his head off the road and suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
Hedley then left the 34-year-old cyclist lying unconscious in the middle of the road as he got back into his car and drove off.
Hedley, fromΒ Kirkcaldy, subsequently found out police had put out an appeal to find the motorist involved and handed himself into a local station two days later.
He pled guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life when he appeared atΒ Edinburgh Sheriff CourtΒ on Tuesday.
That's the main jist of things
No road-rage context justifies his assault
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