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Albus Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-09 11:31 AM
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6 weeks is not much time to serve for taking a life
A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks.

Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway - Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed.

Lord Ahmed, of Rotherham, had admitted driving dangerously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7909510.stm


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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 08:30 AM
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1. Given how little happened to that tw*t of a lorry driver who wiped out a family ...
... it's hardly surprising that some c*nt who bribed his way into the
Lords can get off too ...

The price of life? Too cheap for words. Now if he'd done something
*important* like damage property or try to protest illegal wars ...
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