Hit & run driver kills cyclist out training but walks free from court with suspended

SWL

49 previous conviction, including 26 for theft and nine under the road traffic act, and he was allowed to continue to live in Ireland, seriously that is ridiculous, he should have been sent back to his country of origin at least 48 convictions ago and other victims of this scumbag including the cyclist would be better off, the Irish State should be looking out for its citizens not allowed proven thugs to remain here.

droidus

Anyone watching Vincent Browne last night? Heartbreaking stuff. Im not a law and order fire and brimstone type, but how on earth was this guy even let into the country, let alone allowed to commit crime after crime without consequence?

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/04/04/failure-of-duty/

O’Farrell: “Well the reason Shane is dead is because of total Garda failure. In January 2011, seven months before Shane was killed, this man had received a ten-month sentence and it was adjourned for a year in the Circuit Court, for him to be of good behaviour with permission to bring him back at any stage if he reoffended, but four months after that decision in the Circuit Court, and I saw that order, he was up for five consecutive days of theft in another court room and the judge was unaware that he was to be brought back and gave him a four-month suspended sentence. The guards should have brought him back when he reoffended. So he now, in May, got a four-month suspended sentence and went on to kill our son. He legally shouldn’t have been on the road.”

AmberGold

Outrageous, this country's legal system is the akin to the Wild West. Sure didn't the minister for Justice refuse to give a breath sample. Wrong from the top down.

I feel very sorry for these people who have lost their son.

mamax

If that guy had stopped and called 999 he could have possibly saved the cyclists life, for leaving the scene he should have got 10 years in jail.
Only a low life scumbag could hit someone and drive away not knowing if the person was either dead or needing medical help.

kerry4sam

mamax wrote: »

If that guy had stopped and called 999 he could have possibly saved the cyclists life, for leaving the scene he should have got 10 years in jail.
Only a low life scumbag could hit someone and drive away not knowing if the person was either dead or needing medical help.

Well not only would they be low life scumbag as you say, they would also be Breaking the Law:

"Amendment of section 106 of Principal Act

17. Section 106 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after paragraph (a) the following:

“(aa) if injury has been caused to any person, or any person appears to require assistance, the driver of the vehicle shall offer assistance;”,

(b) in subsection (3), by inserting after paragraph (a) the following:

“(aa) in a case in which injury is caused to a person, and the person who contravenes subsection (1) or subsection (2) —

(i) does so with intent to escape civil or criminal liability, and

(ii) knows that injury has been caused to a person of such nature as to require medical assistance for the person at that place or that the person be brought to a hospital for medical assistance,

on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €10,000 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 7 years or to both such fine and such imprisonment,"

taken from the Road Traffic Act 2014 linkie here!

Thanks,
kerry4sam

Ole Rodrigo

AmberGold wrote: »

Outrageous, this country's legal system is the akin to the Wild West. Sure didn't the minister for Justice refuse to give a breath sample. Wrong from the top down.

I feel very sorry for these people who have lost their son.

It wasn't called the Department of Justice and Law Reform for nothing. Half of it dates back to the middle ages.

Harrybelafonte

ror_74 wrote: »

It wasn't called the Department of Justice and Law Reform for nothing. Half of it dates back to the middle ages.

The Brehon Laws were actually probably more logical to be fair.