Ext User(rmcgrice)
17-02-2006, 09:53 AM
How can an idiot like this be treated so leniently?
Barstard should be gaoled for 20 years....MURDER!!
Obviously the two fools in the court of appeal have never lost
some one to a drunk driver.
http://tinyurl.com/brfkm
Repeat drink-driver needed jail, says judge
Mark Oberhardt
17feb06
MAGISTRATES should have shown no mercy and jailed a repeat drink-
driver before he eventually killed a woman motorist, a judge has
said.
Justice Richard Chesterman was the dissenting judge when the
Court of Appeal late last week rejected a bid by Attorney-General
Linda Lavarch to increase the jail sentence of Brent William Hey.
In the District Court in Ipswich last year, Hey, 29, of Bellbird
Park, was jailed for 6½ years with a recommendation for parole
after 2½ years when he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving
causing death.
Hey had five drink-driving, four disqualified driving, three
major speeding and many more minor speeding convictions. However,
until his latest conviction he had never been jailed.
Hey was banned from driving on July 29, 2003, after recording a
blood-alcohol reading of 0.189. The court was told, however, Hey
was drinking and driving all day when he killed Margaret
Williamson, 57, on February 1, 2004.
He was allegedly still swigging from a can of rum and cola when
he ran through a give-way sign at high speed and hit Williamson's
car on Ipswich's northern outskirts.
Mrs Lavarch appealed the sentence as being manifestly inadequate
In a 2-1 majority judgment the Court of Appeal dismissed the
appeal but in dissenting, Justice Chesterman was scathing in his
criticism of Hey and the Magistrate's Court system in dealing
with drink drivers.
"In my opinion the court should be merciless when dealing with
people who behave in this way.
"It is a matter of considerable regret Hey was not dealt with
appropriately on the occasions when he appeared before the
Magistrate's Court on charges of driving whilst disqualified and
intoxicated," he said. "He should have been jailed for a brief
period to make him realise the seriousness and unacceptability of
his conduct."
However, the Court of Appeal's president Margaret McMurdo and
Justice Pat Keane dismissed the appeal.
Barstard should be gaoled for 20 years....MURDER!!
Obviously the two fools in the court of appeal have never lost
some one to a drunk driver.
http://tinyurl.com/brfkm
Repeat drink-driver needed jail, says judge
Mark Oberhardt
17feb06
MAGISTRATES should have shown no mercy and jailed a repeat drink-
driver before he eventually killed a woman motorist, a judge has
said.
Justice Richard Chesterman was the dissenting judge when the
Court of Appeal late last week rejected a bid by Attorney-General
Linda Lavarch to increase the jail sentence of Brent William Hey.
In the District Court in Ipswich last year, Hey, 29, of Bellbird
Park, was jailed for 6½ years with a recommendation for parole
after 2½ years when he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving
causing death.
Hey had five drink-driving, four disqualified driving, three
major speeding and many more minor speeding convictions. However,
until his latest conviction he had never been jailed.
Hey was banned from driving on July 29, 2003, after recording a
blood-alcohol reading of 0.189. The court was told, however, Hey
was drinking and driving all day when he killed Margaret
Williamson, 57, on February 1, 2004.
He was allegedly still swigging from a can of rum and cola when
he ran through a give-way sign at high speed and hit Williamson's
car on Ipswich's northern outskirts.
Mrs Lavarch appealed the sentence as being manifestly inadequate
In a 2-1 majority judgment the Court of Appeal dismissed the
appeal but in dissenting, Justice Chesterman was scathing in his
criticism of Hey and the Magistrate's Court system in dealing
with drink drivers.
"In my opinion the court should be merciless when dealing with
people who behave in this way.
"It is a matter of considerable regret Hey was not dealt with
appropriately on the occasions when he appeared before the
Magistrate's Court on charges of driving whilst disqualified and
intoxicated," he said. "He should have been jailed for a brief
period to make him realise the seriousness and unacceptability of
his conduct."
However, the Court of Appeal's president Margaret McMurdo and
Justice Pat Keane dismissed the appeal.