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One law for the common people and one law for a peer of the realm

By John Hirst

One law for the common people and one law for a peer of the realmbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45314000/jpg/_45314409_f76e7ecc-13db-4809-b4c6-0fa1835980f9.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45314000/jpg/_45314409_f76e7ecc-13db-4809-b4c6-0fa1835980f9.jpg" border="0" alt="" //abr /a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7792229.stm"Texting crash motorist convictedbr /br /A motorist has been found guilty of killing another driver after using her mobile phone to send and receive more than 20 text messages/a.br /br /Given the above case, perhaps someone in the CPS would like to explain why a href="http://prisonersvoice.blogspot.com/search/label/Lord%20Ahmed%20killer%20driver"Lord Ahmed/a is being treated differently under the law? In both cases the driver killed someone else whilst texting and driving. One is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, the other simply charged with dangerous driving. Why should a Labour peer get preferential treatment?

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).