{"id":11200,"date":"2012-12-16T23:05:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2012-12-16T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:05:50","slug":"death-crash-teacher-gets-job-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11200","title":{"rendered":"Death Crash Teacher Gets Job Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, you couldn\u2019t make it up. Eleanor Brown, 28, served 10 months of a 20-month jail term for killing a man due to dangerous driving. She was jailed in January this year after hitting and killing a moped rider. She hasn\u2019t even had a Christmas away from decent society.<\/p>\n

The man, Lee Roberts, left a wife and two young children – the youngest of which cannot remember her father. So there’s a bunch of people who HAVE had their Christmas screwed up.<\/p>\n

Incredibly she\u2019s been given her old job back<\/a> – teaching Latin and Classics at St John\u2019s School, Marlborough.<\/p>\n

According to an older story<\/a>, Brown had moved into the path of oncoming traffic to overtake a van and collided head on with Mr Roberts. She showed \u201clittle emotion\u201d when she was jailed (something the school board seems to have overlooked). She already had a fixed penalty for overtaking on a left-hand bend and crossing double white lines – an almost suicidal manoeuvre at the best of times, and something else the school board has neglected to consider with due weight – yet the judge refused to allow the jury to know of it in considering the Roberts case. But that didn\u2019t stop her defence claiming that it was \u201ca momentary lapse\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course it was. Just like the one the jury couldn\u2019t be – but should have been – told about.<\/p>\n

The judge said she didn\u2019t even need to overtake in this particular instance. She just did – hardly the action of a good role model for children. He also said that he \u201cmust pass\u201d a sentence of 20 months – which appears to be complete bollocks according to the Crown Prosecution Service, since the starting point for causing death by dangerous driving is 3 years minimum, with a maximum of 14 years. The previous case of Brown overtaking dangerously would have to be relevant, as well. Our law is a total ass, administered by complete asses sometimes, and I\u2019m pretty sure that her sex was a valuable mitigating circumstance here (along with her \u201cprevious good character\u201d and\u00a0 the \u201ccontribution she had made to her community through teaching\u201d, and that she was full of remorse), when the bottom line is simply that she killed a man by driving like an idiot, and had been caught doing almost the same thing previously.<\/p>\n

But on the subject of her getting her job back, how can a bunch of school kids ever respect someone they know is responsible for killing someone else? It\u2019s bound to keep coming up in the playground (or whatever they have at these posh schools).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, you couldn\u2019t make it up. Eleanor Brown, 28, served 10 months of a 20-month jail term for killing a man due to dangerous driving. She was jailed in January this year after hitting and killing a moped rider. She hasn\u2019t even had a Christmas away from decent society. The man, Lee Roberts, left a […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11200","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\/11200","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=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}