{"id":18668,"date":"2015-11-11T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18668"},"modified":"2015-11-11T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:39:56","slug":"ageism-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18668","title":{"rendered":"Ageism Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t want to hijack the Desreen\u2019s Rule post, but I was reading Benjamin Brooks-Hutton\u2019s blog<\/a> and there is one thing he says (as do some of the commentators) which he (and the commentators) are absolutely and utterly wrong about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If an elderly driver is found guilty of dangerous driving \u2013 and especially if they cause death by dangerous driving \u2013 they deserve to go to jail for it. <\/strong>This is even more true if they purposely lied in order to stay on the roads.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, Ben, but they do. They are as guilty as a 17-year old would be. And they deserve a sentence of the same duration as the 17-year old would get.<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Lederman showed no remorse, and made every attempt to get out of being prosecuted (causing even more pain than would otherwise have been experienced by Ben Hutton). Although little has been made of it, he claimed to have had \u201can episode\u201d \u2013 in my books, given the evidence and the outcome of the trial, that is what is known in the civilised world as \u201ca lie\u201d. A straightforward case therefore took over two years to be dealt with. Lederman could<\/strong> have been put away for 14 years, but he got a very modest 18 months.<\/p>\n

Mr Hutton is obviously still struggling to come to terms with what happened, whereas Lederman is almost certainly now back on the streets again (or will be within weeks). Since we know he tried to get out of the charges and showed no remorse, it doesn\u2019t take much to imagine how he\u2019s<\/strong> doing at the moment \u2013 and I\u2019d lay odds that it\u2019s not as bad for him as it is for Mr Hutton. Nor should Mr Hutton forget that Lederman came within millimetres of killing both him and his son, not to mention the fact that he ruined the life of Amy Werner, and very nearly the lives of five more pedestrians who he didn\u2019t see (though I suspect that what they witnessed has hardly left their lives untarnished).<\/p>\n

Lederman deserved to go to jail. He is very, very lucky he didn\u2019t go there for longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t want to hijack the Desreen\u2019s Rule post, but I was reading Benjamin Brooks-Hutton\u2019s blog and there is one thing he says (as do some of the commentators) which he (and the commentators) are absolutely and utterly wrong about. If an elderly driver is found guilty of dangerous driving \u2013 and especially if they […]<\/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":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","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\/18668","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=18668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}