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Lord Ahmed goes to jail for texting while driving

Excellent

How long will he really be in there for though.

Bet it's a nice open prison and not Brixton or Wandsworth
 
Texting death crash peer jailed

bbc said:
A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks.

Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007.

The driver of the other vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7909510.stm


It seems only yesterday when we were discussing someone else doing this.

Has to be lunacy to text while driving.

I am glad he was jailed, perhaps he should face something extra after all someone was killed.
 
It seems he will only have to spend 6 weeks inside, the rest of it is to he spent on licence.

Apparently the texting was prior to the accident i.e. the accident ocurred when he was not texting.

How they were able to be certain about that I am not sure.
 
It seems he will only have to spend 6 weeks inside, the rest of it is to he spent on licence.

Apparently the texting was prior to the accident i.e. the accident ocurred when he was not texting.

How they were able to be certain about that I am not sure.

I expect Mr Gombar's watch stopped.
 
It seems he will only have to spend 6 weeks inside, the rest of it is to he spent on licence.

Apparently the texting was prior to the accident i.e. the accident ocurred when he was not texting.

How they were able to be certain about that I am not sure.

I assume by checking phone records against the actual time of accident according to witnesses and/or any CCTV.
 
'Lord' Ahmed is an out an out cunt and I pleased to see him go down but sadly its not long enough. He's not just a cunt for this offence he's also the anti democratic scumbag who threw the toys out of the pram and threatened to lead a march of 10 k muslims against parliament if he didn't get his own way on something.

The man is better off in a cell or a cess pit than in parliament. Enobling Ahmed is another one of Blair and Browns gross errors of misjudgement.
 
'Lord' Ahmed is an out an out cunt and I pleased to see him go down but sadly its not long enough. He's not just a cunt for this offence he's also the anti democratic scumbag who threw the toys out of the pram and threatened to lead a march of 10 k muslims against parliament if he didn't get his own way on something.

The man is better off in a cell or a cess pit than in parliament. Enobling Ahmed is another one of Blair and Browns gross errors of misjudgement.

What's wrong with threatening to organise a march, or is this just another anti-muslims rant? :hmm:
 
Use a knife or any other weapon to kill someone, intentionally or otherwise, get a minimum of eight years in prison. But kill someone using a motor vehicle you get twelve weeks...:(
 
What's wrong with threatening to organise a march, or is this just another anti-muslims rant? :hmm:

It wasn't just saying there will be a march it was the inference that Ahmed was going to arrange a violent march. Big difference. BTW FYI I don't have problems with Muslims as individuals even though I disagree with the theology. I have a big and justified problem with Islamism. I don't play nice with people who want to kill or enslave me. Ahmed is just an apologist for Islamofascism.
 
It's inexcusable that the pillock was texting whilst driving. But I think the judge took into account that other cars had also hit Mr Gombar's car immediately before Lord Ahmed hit it and that he took steps to try and stop other traffic coming up at some risk to himself. There where other contributing factors as well.

IMO I think 12 weeks is too short for this sort of thing though, but that applies to all convictions of death through careless driving, not just this one. A driver is handling an object that has has much energy as a bullet, it is an inherently dangerous act to drive a car at speed and the driver should be paying attention at all times.
 
Will they take his Peerage away. Seems to be the House of Lords is full of convicts..Archer being the most famous. Mind you there is a coupe of bankers in there as well.

Strip him and feed him to the lions.
 
It's inexcusable that the pillock was texting whilst driving. But I think the judge took into account that other cars had also hit Mr Gombar's car immediately before Lord Ahmed hit it and that he took steps to try and stop other traffic coming up at some risk to himself. There where other contributing factors as well.

IMO I think 12 weeks is too short for this sort of thing though, but that applies to all convictions of death through careless driving, not just this one. A driver is handling an object that has has much energy as a bullet, it is an inherently dangerous act to drive a car at speed and the driver should be paying attention at all times.

The only way is to take the car away on the spot and then force the culprit to attend a 5 hours lecture with colour photos of what it means to cause a fatal crash. After the £1000 fine is paid they can have the car back.
 
Will they take his Peerage away. Seems to be the House of Lords is full of convicts..Archer being the most famous. Mind you there is a coupe of bankers in there as well.

Strip him and feed him to the lions.

Hearing this from a cop is rather refreshing.
 
Will they take his Peerage away. Seems to be the House of Lords is full of convicts..Archer being the most famous. Mind you there is a coupe of bankers in there as well.

Strip him and feed him to the lions.

If there is any justice then he will lose his peerage. Its not as if he doesn't have a track record of being disreputable is it? I'm all for giving people slack for mistakes made but not on this occasion.
 
Automatic lifetime driving ban might make them think before doing it.

would make a difference to a lot of driving offences that people seem to think they can get away with while whinging about how hard done by the motorist is these days.
 
Use a knife or any other weapon to kill someone, intentionally or otherwise, get a minimum of eight years in prison. But kill someone using a motor vehicle you get twelve weeks...:(

Yeah, I'm not sure about this, tbh.

Leaving aside the fact that Ahmed is a bit of a cock anyway, would he have got the same sentence if the accident hadn't happened and he was just caught texting? I somehow doubt it.

Yet the accident occurred 3 miles after he finished pissing about with the phone. At 60 mph that's a full 3 minutes he's been driving perfectly normally and he hits a pissed up driver that's already crashed and spun his car which has alread been hit by a previous vehicle.

The judge has accepted that there's no causal link between the texting and the accident.

I'll be interested to see how many people caught texting or on the dog down for 12 months. Because that's all this guy has done.

This sentence, if not harsh, is certainly inconsitent with sentencing for similar offences.
 
I suppose there is one thing we can deduce about Ahmed is that there is a basis of honesty there.

AFAIKT It came up in the police investigation of the fatal accident that Ahmed's phone had been sending texts close to the time of the accident. But Ahmed had his wife and mother in the Jaguar with him and he could have claimed that it was one of them, a non driver, who was texting on his phone. Perhaps he never was presented with the chance to make this deception, perhaps it would never have occurred to him, but he did not make this claim which is perhaps to his credit.
 
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