[Closed] Can this be right?

OK STW massif, can we kick this one about for a while?

Very interested to know what the feeling is about my mate. He’s our software support guy, basically self-employed, works really hard and is excellent at his job. He’s just come in this morning, and tearfully announced that he is probably going to be unable to continue to offer us a service, on the basis that he’s just been banned from driving for six months. His crime? He had 9 points on his licence for “minor speeding offences”, (what I mean by that is one of them was for triggering a camera at 2:00am in the morning travelling at 37mph at the end of a section of national speed limit dual carriageway), and then got clocked again. He’s been summonsed, sent to court and banned for 6 months. (NB: 6 of the points were incurred in 2006 and are now off his licence.)

Now then, no argument regarding that fact he’s done wrong, but is this punishment, that looks like making him unemployed, as the sole breadwinner in a family of 5 proportionate, (given that for example the driver who recklessly killed the Rhyll cycling club 4 only got £180 fine and 6 penalty points), reasonable and proportionate.

No sermonising please, but I am thinking about writing to my MP about what seems to me to be an injustice, and the huge discrepancy in sentencing. Am I wrong to be outraged?