Wednesday 25 February 2009

Labour peer jailed for dangerous driving


What IS going on with the House of Lords at the moment?

At least this case confirms the rule of law - even life peers like Lord Ahmed are not above the law.

On the other hand, he only got 12 weeks and his conviction was not related to being involved in a fatal crash, but to sending long text messages to a journalist earlier on the same journey. The last text was sent only two minutes before the crash - I wonder whether he was still looking at his phone? How the mighty are fallen...

It's not been a great few weeks for the reputation of the upper House. Should we keep it or bin it? What do you think?

1 comment:

  1. I think this case is an excellent example to show that nobody is above the law but 12 week that is just ridiculous...... that’s what I call a SPEEDY judgment we all know that lord Arhmend is just gonna SPEED through his sentence and be back on our streets/roads ensuring justice. But none the less I do think his sentence was unfair however this will allow precedent for other judges should they offend so allin all a goods day works ; ) gsingh

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