Drunk driver jailed after killing motorcyclist

It’s time the ‘speed kills’ signs were replaced with ‘stupidity kills’!

6 years??? Is that all? So what more could this loser have done to get the maximum sentence? I wouldn’t have thought you could get much worse than this guy. A totally inadequate sentence.

gungsuperstar said :

And yet if the victim were riding a bicycle, many here on the Riot Act would be questioning the sentence and blaming the cyclist.

Care to show any examples of where people here have questioned the actions of a cyclist being hit by a drunk driver four times over the limit. We’re all waiting.

This is what shits me about road safety messages by authorities. We get hammered into us the mantra of speed kills, they fine a majority of people for doing <10kmh to supposedly discourage us from speed killing us. Then some piece of crap decides to drink himself stupid, chooses to get behind the wheel of a car, then kills someone, and gets a pissy 6 year sentance and will probably get out in 3. What kind of bs hypocrisy is this?? I've always said that if you want to kill someone in Australia, do it with a car.

He was just waiting for a mate.

Pork Hunt said :

Six years? I hope there is an appeal by the prosecution.

In all fairness he is 66 years old. He stands a reasonable chance of serving the life sentence he deserves.

gungsuperstar said :

And yet if the victim were riding a bicycle, many here on the Riot Act would be questioning the sentence and blaming the cyclist.

Sarcasm or stupidity?

gungsuperstar said :

And yet if the victim were riding a bicycle, many here on the Riot Act would be questioning the sentence and blaming the cyclist.

Bollocks.

Life is such a fickle thing. Small things like being pulled over at the breath testing station 60 kms before and this wouldn’t have happened. What if Mr Newton just had one last smoke, one last sandwich, one last piss, went a little slower/faster on his journey; this wouldn’t have happened. Hang one, why would it matter what Newton did?

If that unlicensed f@#%$^er wasn’t behind the wheel of a car it would never have happened.

John Kenneth Harvey, you are a discrace. Do us all a favour and neck yourself from a tree in your backyard. Just as long as a little one doesn’t find you.

Ironic that at his next drive driving court appearance he’ll use the excuse that he only did it because he is having trouble dealing with having killed someone.

+1 on a tougher sentencing