Many other motorcyclists have been "nicked" doing 130mph. Why did the Wiltshire guy get 15 months in prison?

Question

Many other motorcyclists have been "nicked" doing 130mph. Why did the Wiltshire guy get 15 months in prison?

Answer 1

I've no idea why he got 15 months.  It should have been 15 years.

Answer 2

He is lucky it should have been in the loony bin were he deserves to be

Answer 3

because he was disqualified already for the samething

Answer 4

Because many others have been doing it?

Answer 5

I hadn't heard this. I got caught doing 135mph early Sunday morning on M6. They'd been chasing me from the last junction and radioed ahead for a car at the services to pull me over. They didn't have an exact speed for me as they didn't keep up, so the "ticket" was for doing 100 mph over a 10 mile stretch. I got fined £270 and 3 points - it's still on my licence - but no longer valid, but it was in 1987.

My own fault. No argument.  I take life at a slower speed all round now - being a bit older.

Answer 6

Personally I think he should have been given longer.  But I think he was given a prison sentence due to his previous driving record and he obviously doesn't give a d**n about other road users.

Answer 7

Probably because he was doing it while disqualified.

It's a load of bollocks anyway. You could argue a car doing the same thing could kill innocent people, and no one could complain.

You can't argue that a bike crashing into a car at that speed would have any other likely result than a dead biker.

I note, cheerfully, that the sentence handed down and the minimum term to serve is longer than many people get for assault. No one will ever convince me that speeding is a more serious offence than giving someone a kicking. Only if someone gets killed or injured should speeding attract a penalty like this or greater. After all, what did this guy actually do to harm the public at large? He didn't hit anyone, he didn't kill anyone. He just broke the law that says he shouldn't be going that fast.

If he'd been a copper, he'd have got off 'because he was testing his machine,' as a traffic cop argued successfully a couple of years ago.

Answer 8

This chap was found guilty of dangerous driving and driving whilst disqualified hence the 15 month sentence. The excess speed was just a contributary factor but it makes a better headline in the papers.