A mother-of-two who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run crash while over ten times the prescribed limit for cocaine and later told police she thought she had hit a fox has been jailed...
Well, I should think so!
...for five years.
Wait, what?
Moughan, who has two daughters aged 18 and 12, sobbed on Monday as Judge Simon Hickey handed her a five-year jail term and a six-year driving ban, telling her no sentence 'could possibly do justice in the family's eyes'.
Probably true, but y'know, at least try...
Ms Pearson said Moughan then drove on towards Selby with a smashed windscreen and on the rims of her wheels as her tyres had been seriously damaged in the crash. She said: 'By 11.55 pm, [Moughan] reached Selby [where] police were dealing with another incident.' Officers were alerted to the noise of Moughan's car as it drove past them because it was being driven 'on two of the rims [and] its tyres were completely flat'.
She added: 'The front windscreen was completely smashed.'
Good grief!
Moughan was stopped and breathalysed, and when asked about the collision, she told officers she thought she had hit a fox.
They have foxes that big? What does the local hunt use, pitbulls?
Moughan was arrested and charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and later released under investigation. But two months later, police found her slumped in another damaged car, heavily drunk.
/facepalm
Neil Cutte, mitigating, said Moughan had never been in trouble before her first conviction in December, had been in full-time employment and was previously 'highly thought of'.
Not any longer...
In sentencing Moughan, Judge Hickey said: 'It's a tragedy that was completely avoidable.'
Well, yes. And she clearly didn't learn her lesson, did she? I've never seen a case with more aggravating factors. So a five year sentence - which we all know she won't fully serve - doesn't quite seem fitting, does it?
"if you want to kill someone and get off lightly, do it in a car"
ReplyDelete...and for preference, kill a cyclist. Every driver knows cyclists are less than human so they don't really count. They all jump red lights* and they don't even pay road tax*. And don't get me started on that stupid lycra* they wear, do they think they're in the Tour de France?*
* More cliches available on request.
I'd rather they wore the lycra, frankly; a lot of them round her seem to prefer dark clothing and no lights!
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ReplyDeleteover ten times the prescribed limit for cocaine!!! ?
ReplyDeleteWell, quite!
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