mrpotatohead wrote:He deserved a long sentence but this is the sort of stretch that a murdering rapist would get, our courts are out of touch with reality.
Keith wrote:A banned driver, who was drunk, doing 57mph in a 20mph zone, on the wrong side of the road, who hit an Uber and killed the passenger, then laughed and when asked about the crash by police at the scene, said, "to be honest, it's their problem," was sentenced to eight years in November of last year.
Pilley is a horrible man, but I struggle to see that his crime is more than 50% worse than a drunk, speeding, disqualified driver, who takes a life.
Phoenix Shrimp 2017 wrote:Keith wrote:A banned driver, who was drunk, doing 57mph in a 20mph zone, on the wrong side of the road, who hit an Uber and killed the passenger, then laughed and when asked about the crash by police at the scene, said, "to be honest, it's their problem," was sentenced to eight years in November of last year.
Pilley is a horrible man, but I struggle to see that his crime is more than 50% worse than a drunk, speeding, disqualified driver, who takes a life.
If you read the Judges summing up it is clear that Pilley really wound him up with his attitude throughout the proceedings. (Not recommended with a senior Judge). The trial also took 8 months and cost the tax payer many millions. The estimated fraud benefit to Pilley was 15 million and as well as small businesses being ruined also involved charitable organisations etc' being stung. They really were unscrupulous. Add to that the fact that Pilley has previously served prison time for a fraud offence so he hasn't exactly learnt his lesson, the judge mentioned this in his summing up.
Even so 13 years was a bit of an eyebrow raiser! I thought it would be 10 years but wouldn't have been surprised if it had been less.
The moral of the story is don't adopt a Billy Big Bollocks clever attitude with a Judge because they will nearly always have the last laugh.
Keith wrote:A banned driver, who was drunk, doing 57mph in a 20mph zone, on the wrong side of the road, who hit an Uber and killed the passenger, then laughed and when asked about the crash by police at the scene, said, "to be honest, it's their problem," was sentenced to eight years in November of last year.
Pilley is a horrible man, but I struggle to see that his crime is more than 50% worse than a drunk, speeding, disqualified driver, who takes a life.
Gone_Shrimping wrote:Is his company still trading ?
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