Get tough (From Barry And District News)

Get tough

THE RECENT case of the football manager who escaped with just a community service sentence shows unacceptable leniency from the courts yet again.

He got off on the grounds that he had suffered personal tragedies; does this mean that drivers can vent their personal tragedies by inflicting tragedies upon other innocent road users?

Injury and death caused by dangerous drivers are no less serious for the victims and their loved ones than those caused by armed assault and murder, so drivers who bring about those results through deliberate disregard of risk to others, such as drunken driving and mobile phone use while driving, should be treated as such.

It is time for us to demand that parliament compels the courts to impose realistic minimum sentence, regardless of the pleading expertise of defending counsels.

Marc Delaney,

Vincent Close,

Barry.