It sounds like the loopy old git would deserve anything coming his way, but surprised that line of mitigation wasn’t at least given some very serious thought if not used
It was used, defence lawyer is quoted further up
Where are y'all getting the dashcam footage from?
This is just astonishing.
the victim spat on his luxury Land Rover
As opposed to all those poverty-spec Freelanders?
No, the point of this little journalistic manoeuvre is to distance the old, rich toff in his posh car from the people reading the newspaper. It's not about you, dear reader. This couldn't possibly happen to normal folk like you and me. Don't worry about it - you don't need to do any of that uncomfortable soul-searching. /s
Getting insurance once he eventually gets his licence back will be interesting!
Can you imagine how that conversation will go?
@Cougar in the original report
Dashcam footage recorded Moult’s wife, Irene, begging him to avoid the confrontation as Moult sped after the victim, blaming him for damaging the wing mirror on his Freelander.
“It’s not worth it – don’t, love,” she said.
No, the point of this little journalistic manoeuvre is to distance the old, rich toff in his posh car from the people reading the newspaper. It’s not about you, dear reader. This couldn’t possibly happen to normal folk like you and me. Don’t worry about it – you don’t need to do any of that uncomfortable soul-searching. /s
I think you read too much malevolence into this. I'm not a journalist but I remember my school English days writing "dummy" newspaper articles and being encouraged (i.e. criticised for not) to use more florid language. People want to read articles that tell you about people, so a luxury landrover lets people infer information about the driver.
in the original report
Ah right, so it's just the report not the actual footage. Ta.
Pretty incriminating evidence really. As I said, if the cyclist had died it would have been five years. So I guess the lesson is not to use a dash cam if you are going to run people over.... "Foot slipped onto the accelerator" is not the same as “It’s not worth it – don’t, love,”.
Yep, he should have just waited till he was walking along the pavement and run him over, much easier to get away with.
