Re: Oxford St.Cyclist V. cabbie in court, the final result

Squashme wrote:
On 6 Oct, 10:52, JNugent <jennings...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/10/2010 08:30, Mrcheerful wrote:

the taxi drivers witness was out of the country, but the cyclist's
witnesses turned up, the taxi driver (on his own) was not found to
be credible.
http://road.cc/content/news/25146-london-cyclist-strangled-taxi-drive...
The report in the standard has a slightly different slant
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23884814-cyclist-is-cl...
the comments after it are telling: people are p@@@d off with
cyclists in London.

QUOTE:
As reported on road.cc in June, Jared Kelly, aged 39, issued an
appeal via the London Cyclist blog for witnesses to the incident,
which took place in March this year on London?s Oxford Street, to
help him in his defence. Word of his predicament quickly spread via
cycling websites and Twitter, and was also picked up by the Evening
Standard.

[ ... ]

According to one eyewitness, it had been Mr Kelly who had attacked
the cab driver, but that witness was unable to attend the hearing at
South Western Magistrates? Court due to being out of the country,
and attempts by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to have the case
adjourned were rejected.

[That is hugely important.]

Instead, the Evening Standard reports, Mr Kelly produced two
witnesses, Lee Sattaur, manager at H&M in Oxford Street and Matthew
Gowan, a student at Westminster University, who supported his
version of events, who were described as ?Good Samaritans" for
having stepped forward.
ENDQUOTE

Just *imagine* the outcry there would have been from the usual
suspects if tht had been reversed and it had been the driver up on
the assault charge. Just think of a situation where the only witness
known of (who supported the "victim" cyclist) was unavailable, but
the case went ahead anyway and magically, after an appeal in the cab
trade press made by the defendant seeking "witnesses", two
cab-drivers turned up to say that it was all the cyclist's fault.

No. Let's just see what has really happened, instead of your usual
biased swerving. You got fooled. You, the Met, the CPS, Medway,
Mrcheerful and all.

The CPS thought that there was a case to answer, and it is rare that they
pursue something if it is tenuous, the lack of the witness was the crucial
factor. I would think that there are good grounds for an appeal, hopefully
the cab drivers union will fund it.


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