Re: Father of quad-bike girl charged with manslaughter.

Adrian wrote:
thagor2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

So, instead of convicting the driver who did the actual killing,
the father, who has already suffered the agony of his daughter's
death due to his negligence, is now convicted of manslaughter no
less.

Good.

I don't think so. The guy made a stupid error of judgement and lost
his daughter because of it. he's suffered enough.

There's stupid errors of judgement - and there's stupid errors of
judgement.

How is banging him up for manslaughter going to benefit anyone? Seems
to me this is a classic case of the law being vindictive because it
can.

Not really. If that was a valid argument, then you can certainly see
the defence lawyer in a case like that of Khyra Ishaq - the 7yo
starved to death by her mother & stepfather - trying to trot that
line out.

This fuckwit made a _monumentally_ fuckwitted decision, which led
DIRECTLY to the death of a child in his care. Don't forget that even
after the collision, he made the situation even worse by refusing to
let an ambulance be called to the scene, taking the kid home instead.

It's far more serious than merely "an error of judgement".

I was just about to write very similar comments, but I won't bother now
you've said it all. Thanks for saving my time :-)

Mike P


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