How Long Would A Man Have Got In Prison?

[sunny-dave]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-woman-who-killed-love-27684884

Not much equality here - seems that being young, female and attractive acts as a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card, even when you kill someone with your car in a fit of temper.

[jno]

the report makes lear that her age, not her sex, mattered.

[douglas9401]

Aye, Donald's still worth every penny.

[youngmafbog]

She suffered PTSD after doing it.

So thats ok then.

It is now getting beyond a joke. Bleeding heart liberals have a lot to answer for. This one is dangerous, I wonder who the next poor sod to die at her hands will be?

[sunny-dave]

"the report makes lear that her age, not her sex, mattered."

Yes - that's what the judge said - but if you believe that her sex did not influence his decision (even if unknowingly, and certainly unacknowledgedly) then I think you are failing to understand the psyche of (usually male) judges when it comes their marked reluctance to to imprison pretty young women ...

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you have a link to a similarly aged man in Scotland charged with the same offence for comparison?

[THECORBYLOON]

The sentencing guideline about offenders aged under twenty-five in Scotland was introduced in January this year.

[anneasquith]

Impossible to prove your point Dave .

[Arksided]

Three point turn and aimed at him... com on that is Murder.

She might not have meant the severity... but it is murder not even manslaughter it wasn't an accident.

[sunny-dave]

A brief search found this case - from as recently as 2019

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/car-thief-declan-mayes-jailed-16752491

[Arksided]

SD the Scottish laws seem as Sucky! as ours in England to me.

[Gromit]

Yep. If you intend to murder someone, then you should be sure to pick your weapon of choice to be a car, not a gun or knife.
Pulverise them with a 3 ton lump of metal and you will get away with it, be it the ‘love of your life’ (pah) an innocent pedestrian or an irritatingly slow cyclist. Run the *** over and you will get away with, a slap on the wrist and a few tuts, be still be at liberty will your poor assailants are six feet under.

[THECORBYLOON]

SD, that case was three year before the guidance changed.

The offender was travelling at speed in a stolen van.

After hitting the man, he made no attempt to stop and had a second crash.

He also had previous convictions for vehicle theft, housebreaking, assault and driving while banned.

Other than the deaths, I am struggling to see the similarities between the two cases.

[douglas9401]

Arksided, you could be right.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/charges-dropped-over-death-of-west-lothian-and-run-victim-george-robertson-3531093

Be aware there's a clump of adverts then the story continues further down.

[roopower]

We're still to see how long Nigel Malt will get for running over his daughter, he did run over her twice but put her in his car and took her to hospital. Not really a comparison but as close as I could get.

[sunny-dave]

TCL - despite the young man being a vile scrote and the young woman 'of previous good character', I could easily make a case for her actions being the more heinous of the two and deserving of the longer sentence :

She deliberately took the time to turn her car and took a run straight at her target - a terrible thing to do.

He pinged someone by accident/inattention and was just unlucky that the man was killed - as his defence said :

"What seems to have happened to make the tragedy even more tragic, it that was possible, is he struck the now deceased on the leg and something got caught.

"There was no excess speed involved and indeed nine times out of 10 there would have been a broken leg and criminal proceedings, but nothing like the tragedy that we have here."

I accept that the man's case pre-dated the change in policy, but am 95% certain he'd still have been jailed.