We wrote recently about American Nathan Doud, who was given a jail sentence of 20 months after he admitted causing the death of three men in a head-on crash in Yorkshire.
The field service engineer from California had only been in this country for a few hours when, driving a hired car, he mistook road signs and drove on the wrong side of the road.
Now we hear that a Labour peer jailed for dangerous driving after sending texts on the M1 before a fatal crash could be freed just 18 days into his 12-week sentence. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, Britain's first Muslim peer, was sent to Doncaster Prison last week but his lawyer believes he could be released early. If so, he would have to wear an electronic tag confining him to his home between 8pm and 6am.
Lord Ahmed admitting sending texts minutes before his Jaguar hit a stationary Audi near Rotherham on Christmas Day 2007, killing its driver, Martyn Gombar, 28. The prosecution did not link the texting to the crash.
An innocent young man from America who made an honest mistake - a tragic mistake, true, but an error and nothing more - gets 20 months in prison.
A Muslim Labour peer who admitted driving dangerously in the minutes leading up to his crash, seems likely only to serve a few days of his already light sentence.
Does anyone spot just the tiniest little inconsistency here? And does anyone need us to point out why this might be so?
No, we didn't think so.
either on this site or on the World Wide Web.
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