Holy shit that is horrific
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Seems like it's only fair that he gets transported under the bus to prison for his sentence.
Truly harrowing. Just round the corner from me, and an area I frequently cycle. I hate it here.
After he stopped, Richardson twice tried to pull Mullins out, before returning to the car and driving sharply and deliberately from side to side before mounting a grass verge, the court heard. Mullins was finally released but was then driven over again as Richardson reversed and drove away.
Holy fucking shit. This person is a threat to everyone. No care at all for others, only for self-preservation. Glad he's locked up.
I guess the guy didn't like cyclists!
Coming from the US, if he had stopped the car immediately, the bicyclist would likely be alive, and the driver would've received a metaphorical slap on the wrist by comparison to the act he performed. Murder is the only outcome he deserves.
I do like hearing that other countries are slightly less car-brained.
I know it didn't happen in the US. That's my only insight that I could offer. I don't know how favorable UK courts are to drivers. If it had happened in the US, and the driver stopped immediately after impact, it likely wouldn't have turned out too badly for the driver because of how favored drivers are and how light their punishments are from US judges.
As for capital punishment, I wasn't even mentioning the punishment for the driver. The incident being classified as "murder" is the only outcome that could work given the driver's actions. I wasn't calling for the execution of the driver at all.
I hope that clears up my positions. Correspondence through text isn't always great at conveying intentions.
In the US, it's normally OK to hit someone with your car. Unless that person is a cop. The pigs will execute babies over that.
Not every story needs to be 'America bad'. Give it a rest.
This didn't happen in the US. There is nothing about this story related to the USA. Not every story has to have an American perspective.
I meant it as a complement, jerk. As in, look how much better the UK is with traffic fatalities. But you're right, fuck those colonial assholes. Goddamn nation of thieves and drunks, get out of Ireland!
Is that European enough for you?
The news is that he was actually charged and convicted.
What other weapon might he have had available in some situation where he might get overcome with random vicious anger?
And in a way where the beginning of the violence is mostly accidental.
I don't think any other weapon than a car would have been able to bring him into this heinous deed.
That's not just unpopular, that's ridiculous and factually incorrect. First of all, nothing in the article mentions anything about premeditation or anything suggesting he would've murdered the guy by other means instead.
Second, it's well-established fact that the act of driving causes aggression that otherwise would not exist. Hell, Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago! The reason the behavior is specific to driving is that:
“You are likely to hold Simon Richardson in contempt. That contempt may well manifest itself in a loathing of Simon Richardson and, in fairness, you are probably right to."
This is the defence lawyer talking. Just in case there was any doubt about how awful the driver is.
Horrifying
A motorcyclist followed a trail of blood from the collision spot and discovered Mullins alone and barely breathing on the grass verge, the court heard. Emergency services attended but were unable to save Mullins, from Northwich, Cheshire, who died from multiple injuries.
Oh, so it's not so much that justice is being served as the Robin Thicke principle being enacted? That is to say that the defendant is such a major dick, he'd get a life sentence for first offense shoplifting.
There's being a dickhead in everything you do in life, and then there's this.
There is a fucking gulf between being an utter bellend and mounting a grass verge to try and scrape a person off the underside of your vehicle that you've dragged for a mile because they're wrapped round part of the suspension, this after you've watched them hit your windscreen and go under the car, and listened to them moan and scream for that mile.
This is antisocial personality disorder gruesomely demonstrated to it's basest level. This is psychologically fundamentally fucking broken in a way we have no idea how to fix. That the individual responsible hasn't been committed to a secure psychiatric hospital indefinitely is absolutely astounding. They are clearly a danger to the wider public and have demonstrated an utter contempt for the lives of others.
I apologise if that comes off as having a go at any commenters. I'm not, I just don't really know how to handle these emotions besides vent it a little in a comment. 💛
I think the defences only option was trying to fight the murder charge by trying to argue it down to man slaughter
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