Yet another driver has got away ridiculously lightly after causing death and carnage on the roads.
Classroom assistant Carol Temmerman, from Eastbourne, died when she was a passenger in a car on the A259.
Another car, driven by Stephen Newbury, from Bexhill, slewed across the road and the force of the impact killed her. The jury found Newbury guilty of death by dangerous driving, which gave the judge power to inflict a jail sentence on him.
But all Judge Charles Kemp could do was to impose a community service order and ban him from driving for three years. The judge said Newbury was in other ways a caring and considerate man. Maybe so but his shocking and irresponsible driving has killed an innocent woman.
What kind of message is the judge sending out to Carol Temmerman's relatives and to other drivers by this astonishingly lenient punishment?
It is that most people who cause deaths through their dangerous behaviour are sent to prison but not if they are drivers.
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