{"id":10090,"date":"2012-08-23T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2012-08-23T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:40:20","slug":"welsh-prat-banned-again-and-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10090","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Prat Banned (Again) And Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Griffiths is one of that special breed of man. Specifically, he <strong>looks<\/strong> like a man, but is actually pond life slime.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Wales Online - Drink-driver hospitalises four\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2012\/08\/22\/drink-driver-who-hospitalised-four-had-been-banned-from-driving-14-times-91466-31676225\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this article in Wales Online<\/a>, his achievements amount to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ploughed into another car leaving four people needing hospital treatment<\/li>\n<li>15 previous court appearances for 62 other offences<\/li>\n<li>14 convictions for driving while banned<\/li>\n<li>leaving the scene of an accident (with wheel spin)<\/li>\n<li>failing to report an accident<\/li>\n<li>skidmarks 10m long<\/li>\n<li>lying to police about being involved<\/li>\n<li>aggravated vehicle taking<\/li>\n<li>driving without a licence\/while disqualified<\/li>\n<li>driving without insurance<\/li>\n<li>driving under the influence of alcohol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But hey! His defence lawyer, Laurence Jones, said he had shown \u201cgenuine remorse\u201d. Fortunately, the Recorder (or Magistrate) knew that this was complete bullshit, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are a menace to road users. You cannot or will not learn from the sentences the court has imposed on you in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely, if ever, have I seen a motoring record that compares to yours. It is appalling. I regret the powers I have are so limited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was jailed for 16 months (so he\u2019ll be out just after Christmas, probably) and banned for 3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Griffiths is one of that special breed of man. Specifically, he looks like a man, but is actually pond life slime. According to this article in Wales Online, his achievements amount to the following: ploughed into another car leaving four people needing hospital treatment 15 previous court appearances for 62 other offences 14 convictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}