What a high quality comment. Whatever they're paying you, it isn't enough.

Looking at you Anne Sacoolas, a name that should be infamous throughout the Western world.

For those who don't know, this piece of crap was driving on the wrong side of the road after leaving a US base in the UK and through her extremely negligent driving killed a teenager on a moped. Instead of answering for her crime, she fled like the spineless excuse for a human being she is back to the US on a diplomatic passport. Seeing as we're basically America's Belarus, she never got close to seeing the inside of a British prison and the US actively refused to send her back. If you work for US intelligence you are literally allowed to kill British people in cars with impunity, they'll even come out and bat for you when you're caught.

There may be no hell but I hope the rest of her days are as close to it as possible, but her actions reveal a callous moral vacuum of a person who no doubt only feels good about getting away with it. Shame on her name forever, shame on the US government for protecting her, and shame on the British government for folding like tissue paper instead of heeding its duty to seek justice for its citizens.

She will give him 10 years for attempted murder on public official.

You're probably right. I don't think it's a matter of a judge punishing him just like that. He will probably have a trial and some other judge with sentence him.

That's exactly right... the quickest way to get a normal, law abiding citizen, to become a "terrorist" is to take his family and deny him justice

Or just run over the judge with your car. You'll only get 120hrs of community service.

Probably would've gotten a lighter sentence

And I wonder why I have so much anxiety while driving while other fuckers seem to be totally cool being insane.

The driver got 15 months in jail and a 4 year driving ban in the end. Which is still pretty low, especially since the article said he didn't show any sign of remorse.

Because it does matter how it happened. Most legal systems, as well as most people's moral judgements on the issue, are going look at the totality of the circumstances.

Someone going 3x the speed limit is creating a more dangerous situation and should face a higher penalty than someone who was, say, following all the rules but sneezed and accidentally hit a cyclist.

It doesn't feel reasonable to say someone who gets wasted and swerves into a cyclist has the same degree of responsibility as someone who fails to see the victim. Both bad, but drunky made worse choices and introduced more danger. Similarly, speeders have less time to react, lower levels of control, and have exponentially increased the impact forces in a crash.

Obviously, intentionally hitting someone and killing them is the worst but personal choices that increase risk raise culpability.

The story is from 2014

From the linked articles, the killing took place in 2013, the sentencing and chair throw happened in 2014, and in 2015 an appeals court changed the sentence to 15 months in prison.

Edit: From another linked article, he fled to the UK but was extradited to Netherlands to serve the sentence in 2016, and in 2017 he was given early release to travel to Poland for the birth of his own child.

at his sentencing he could say "I'm sorry, I've learned my lesson. next time, instead of throwing a chair, I'll run over the judge's family instead, since that'll only get me 120h of community service."

Maybe judges should get some accountability for letting murderers get away with murder