scottbrehaut wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 398549.stm
TBH Barns, he sounds like a bit of an unexploded hand grenade to me matey....SuperNickyWroe wrote: no offence to any fellow posters, but if he was available would we want him?
i only ask after the opinions that some have regarding a player from notts county and one from down the road for similar offences.
Different though isn't it? The other two fled the scene due to being pi***d, Robertson was still there, and was "only" changing the music on his mp3. How many of us have done that, and managed to get away with it?!SuperNickyWroe wrote:
no offence to any fellow posters, but if he was available would we want him?
i only ask after the opinions that some have regarding a player from notts county and one from down the road for
similar offences.
Good call Jeff, ticks a lot of boxes for me. Dagenham were the worst of the promoted sides last year and got up based purely on scoring more goals than the opposition (if you see what I mean). They had 5 shots on target against us at their place last year and scored 5 goals. Not a bad one among them from memory. Been on loan already and to a side much worse off than ourselves (in the table, I mean), so probably not at the forefront of the mind of the manager. Big and tall, like that. Been down in the lower non-league, so won't be a Premier League prima donna, all man bags and no running. Not averse to coming to our little geographically anomalous outpost and, best of all, as you say, John Still is no mug when it comes to spotting talent from the obscurities of the 6th tier and below.Jeff wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if we got someone in, given the fact Gilligan has returned home. We now can accommodate 2 additional loan players in any matchday squad (unless I missed someone) which would seem to give Buckle what he wanted.
On the subject of target-men, may I suggest Phil Walsh of dagenham. Scored a few on loan at Barnet earlier this season. 6th 3in, but more importantly has spend most of his career at places like Dorchester, Bath, Tiverton etc. O.k not exactly mouthwatering but if there is one managers scouting I pay respect too it's John Still at Dagenham. If he sees there's a player in someone, than they can play. Given the westcountry allegiance I reckon Walsh is worth a shot.
At the risk of stoking a bit of controversy (& Matt will probably know better than me due to his recent studies) I seem to remember several cases where the charge was Due Care & Attention for an accident while distracted by something like this (regardless of the outcome)...D by DD usually has aggravated circumstances attached to it? (& I stand by to be corrected by any "experts" on here)scottbrehaut wrote:There was no suggestion of going too fast was there....My point was that being drunk behind the wheel is a deliberate act, and that they fled the scene. Changing the music in the car is, whilst producing tragic consequences this time, a fairly regular occurance on Britains roads.
Luke Gutteridge should surly read Luke McCormick Matt ? :slap:ferrarilover wrote:Ok, without getting clever, there is a distinction in law, between the classification of the two offences.
Drink driving (to avoid unnecessarily pompous terminology) is an offence requiring both mens rea (a guilty mind) and actus reus (a guilty act). This is that to be guilty of the offence, one must, wilfully or recklessly, be over the drink-drive limit and be driving a vehicle.
Death by dangerous driving is an offence of strict liability. That is, there is no requirement of mens rea involved. One doesn't necessarily have to wilfully or recklessly drive in a dangerous manner to be found guilty. To give an example; no reasonable person would believe that changing tracks on an iPod would lead to another persons death, whereas hitting someone in the face with an axe is foreseeable as likely to cause death or serious injury.
It is for this reason that Robertson was sentenced to slightly less than half the jail time to that which was awarded to the Plymouth 'keeper Luke Gutteridge.
Who among us can honestly say they have never given anything but 100% concentration to the road at all times? Mobile phone buzzes, you glance down to see who's calling, look up, you've hit a cyclist. Driving through town, come to complicated junction, check the sat-nav to see where to go, look up, you've hit an old lady on a zebra crossing.
Unfortunately, there are so many cars on the road now that it is absolutely unavoidable that from time to time, they will bump into one another. From here, it is basic math that some of these incidents will be fatal.
What occurred that day has forever, irreversibly, changed the lives of a very great number of people, but, while the outcome may have been broadly similar, the events leading to those outcomes are so markedly different from case to case as to warrant unequal social judgment for Robertson and, say, Gutteridge or Hughes.
Matt.
Users browsing this forum: A Realist, Brewers boy, Cruisinho, happytorq, knightmaregull, nawoo, TUFC67 and 101 guests
