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Killer driver fined £200
By JOHN COLES
THE family of a schoolboy killed when a speeding car ploughed into his bike hit out yesterday after the yob at the wheel walked free with a £200 fine.
Victim Anthony Wakelin, 15, had just kissed his mum goodbye and told her “I love you” when James Boffey, 18, smashed into him.
The lout — speeding in his silver Vauxhall Vectra — had NEVER passed his test, had NO insurance and had racked up a STRING of motoring offences.
Boffey was doing up to TWICE the 30mph limit as he roared past a line of cars at 7pm in the Dorset village of Wool.
But he dodged a charge of causing death by dangerous driving — because the boy he hit had no lights on his bike and was wearing dark clothes.
The Crown Prosecution Service instead charged him with careless driving and having no insurance — which he admitted.
Anthony’s devastated mum Sarah, 36, branded the punishment “farcical.” She stormed: “Boffey acted like the case was an inconvenience to him and showed no remorse whatsoever.”
Anthony’s sister Natalie, 18, who is studying drama at university, said: “For him to get only a £200 fine for my brother’s life is so painful.”
Jobless Boffey, of Liverpool, also admitted a catalogue of separate motoring offences. JPs at Wareham, Dorset, heard he had clocked up £1,400 in fines.
They fined him just £200 for Anthony’s death after being told he could only afford £5 a week.Traffic cop Andy Steele, who comforted Anthony’s family, said: “I prepared them for the worst — knowing the sentences courts impose for careless driving.”
Boffey could not even be charged with causing death by careless driving — because drink and drugs must be a factor. PC Steele called for a more general offence of causing death by careless driving to be brought in.
Boffey even continued driving in the months after the crash — until he was finally banned from the road in March.
The JPs in Wareham gave him an additional two-year ban.
Local Labour MP Jim Knight said of the sentence: “People rightly feel let down.”
I found this here www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003221988,00.html . Words just fail me
. My heart felt sympathies go out to the young boys (Anthony) family.
By JOHN COLES
THE family of a schoolboy killed when a speeding car ploughed into his bike hit out yesterday after the yob at the wheel walked free with a £200 fine.
Victim Anthony Wakelin, 15, had just kissed his mum goodbye and told her “I love you” when James Boffey, 18, smashed into him.
The lout — speeding in his silver Vauxhall Vectra — had NEVER passed his test, had NO insurance and had racked up a STRING of motoring offences.
Boffey was doing up to TWICE the 30mph limit as he roared past a line of cars at 7pm in the Dorset village of Wool.
But he dodged a charge of causing death by dangerous driving — because the boy he hit had no lights on his bike and was wearing dark clothes.
The Crown Prosecution Service instead charged him with careless driving and having no insurance — which he admitted.
Anthony’s devastated mum Sarah, 36, branded the punishment “farcical.” She stormed: “Boffey acted like the case was an inconvenience to him and showed no remorse whatsoever.”
Anthony’s sister Natalie, 18, who is studying drama at university, said: “For him to get only a £200 fine for my brother’s life is so painful.”
Jobless Boffey, of Liverpool, also admitted a catalogue of separate motoring offences. JPs at Wareham, Dorset, heard he had clocked up £1,400 in fines.
They fined him just £200 for Anthony’s death after being told he could only afford £5 a week.Traffic cop Andy Steele, who comforted Anthony’s family, said: “I prepared them for the worst — knowing the sentences courts impose for careless driving.”
Boffey could not even be charged with causing death by careless driving — because drink and drugs must be a factor. PC Steele called for a more general offence of causing death by careless driving to be brought in.
Boffey even continued driving in the months after the crash — until he was finally banned from the road in March.
The JPs in Wareham gave him an additional two-year ban.
Local Labour MP Jim Knight said of the sentence: “People rightly feel let down.”
I found this here www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003221988,00.html . Words just fail me
. My heart felt sympathies go out to the young boys (Anthony) family.Trouble is the judges are all a bunch of numpties who should have been pensioned off years ago. They have absolutely no grip on the world they live in.
I would bloody lock him up for life for it. He went out without insurance, never passed his test etc. In my eyes that is the same as going out with a loaded gun and you have never had firearms training.
The chances are its gonna go off and hurt/kill someone.
Lock the scrote up and throw away the keys.....
I would bloody lock him up for life for it. He went out without insurance, never passed his test etc. In my eyes that is the same as going out with a loaded gun and you have never had firearms training.
The chances are its gonna go off and hurt/kill someone.
Lock the scrote up and throw away the keys.....
I read about this this-morning. All I can say is how disgusting I feel with the system in this country!
This guy rightly deserves a bullet in he face and if he survives, a one-on-one cell with brucie the big.
If I committed this crime I would expect one hell of a sentance and feel lucky if I only spent 5 years inside.
I just hope that the family find this guys address, cut his balls off, put them in his mouth and set him on fire! (Unfortuantely in the UK, they would probably see 20 years for their 'indecent assault and heineous crime'!)
The minute I can afford to live somewhere else I am off! And I can PROMISE you that the days I had to spend in the UK will be a distant (horrible) memeory!
This guy rightly deserves a bullet in he face and if he survives, a one-on-one cell with brucie the big.
If I committed this crime I would expect one hell of a sentance and feel lucky if I only spent 5 years inside.
I just hope that the family find this guys address, cut his balls off, put them in his mouth and set him on fire! (Unfortuantely in the UK, they would probably see 20 years for their 'indecent assault and heineous crime'!)
The minute I can afford to live somewhere else I am off! And I can PROMISE you that the days I had to spend in the UK will be a distant (horrible) memeory!
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR THE SPINELESS LEFTIE TOSS@RS, 
YOU ALL!
a mate of mine (who was on a ban for 'totting up')got 3 months in the scrubbs for reversing his van off his own driveway at 0730 to let his missus' car out after his son parked the van behind her car the night before.he didnt hit anyone and wasnt speeding,driving dangerously e.t.c,yet this little scrote kills a 15 year old kid in front of whitnesses and gets a £200 fine!,thats less than most people get for driving without insurance anyway(usually £250 min)and to offer a 5-er a week and the court agreeing is typical of the numpty pillocks in positions of power of the court system.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT DOWN AND THEN MADE TO PAY THE FINES AFTER HIS RELEASE OR ELSE SPEND MORE TIME IN JAIL!!
W@NKERS!
YOU ALL! a mate of mine (who was on a ban for 'totting up')got 3 months in the scrubbs for reversing his van off his own driveway at 0730 to let his missus' car out after his son parked the van behind her car the night before.he didnt hit anyone and wasnt speeding,driving dangerously e.t.c,yet this little scrote kills a 15 year old kid in front of whitnesses and gets a £200 fine!,thats less than most people get for driving without insurance anyway(usually £250 min)and to offer a 5-er a week and the court agreeing is typical of the numpty pillocks in positions of power of the court system.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT DOWN AND THEN MADE TO PAY THE FINES AFTER HIS RELEASE OR ELSE SPEND MORE TIME IN JAIL!!
W@NKERS!
That is so unfair. I feel very sorry for the kid's family. What was the magistrate thinking? I can only assume that his hands were tied and this was the worst sentence that could have been passed. If not, then the guy shouldn't be in that job. What if were his/her child that was run down?
Maybe they should have just prosecuted for speeding. Several expert witnesses nearby saying he was doing xx mph over the limit. He'd have got life in solitary for that.
T/.
Maybe they should have just prosecuted for speeding. Several expert witnesses nearby saying he was doing xx mph over the limit. He'd have got life in solitary for that.
T/.
IMHO the scrote who:-
1)Deliberately drove without a license,
2)Deliberately drove without insurance,
3)Continued to drive after the accident knowing the above,
4)caused death using a vehicle .....
should have got 12 years HARD LABOUR for manslaughter
BUT NO the numpty greenslime PC sandalista do-gooder w*nkers let him off with a slap across the fingers...... FFS it's really time for a change in the law, and in the JPs Magistrates and Judges who hand out such RIDICULOUS rulings!!!!!!
1)Deliberately drove without a license,
2)Deliberately drove without insurance,
3)Continued to drive after the accident knowing the above,
4)caused death using a vehicle .....
should have got 12 years HARD LABOUR for manslaughter
BUT NO the numpty greenslime PC sandalista do-gooder w*nkers let him off with a slap across the fingers...... FFS it's really time for a change in the law, and in the JPs Magistrates and Judges who hand out such RIDICULOUS rulings!!!!!!
It actually worse - if you think on, he's already racked up £1400 in fines, no doubt unpaid, so adding another £200 will make not one bit of difference to his life. So, in fact, he basically got off with no penalty whatsoever.
When I become dictator, scrotes like him will be boiled in oil for less than that.
When I become dictator, scrotes like him will be boiled in oil for less than that.
RUF 3 said: It actually worse - if you think on, he's already racked up £1400 in fines, no doubt unpaid, so adding another £200 will make not one bit of difference to his life. So, in fact, he basically got off with no penalty whatsoever.
When I become dictator, scrotes like him will be boiled in oil for less than that.
why be a dictator?,we'll vote for you,you get the rest of us in your 'transport initiative' group and then restrict voting to only us!!
apache said: but thats just it mate, you guys do the work and bring the scrote to court and a judge (with no conception of the real world) lets them off with a stern word
Fraid we have our hand tied behind our backs. Cops bring cases to court so wishy-washy they should be in Aladdin, not a court of law. We cannot by law take into account the consequences of the offence, only the offence. Sounds like he was speeding and didn't see something. We cannot distinguish between he hit a lamp-post and he hit a child, it's the law. It's shit, but it's the law. Had it been a lamp-post £200 would be accepted, so for a person fraid it must be the same, until Tony and his cronies really do let us be tough on the causes of crime.
Sorry folks.
)What I want to know is how could he have been let off with a 200 quid fine when the scottish bloke doing 150 was sent down for 5 months.
Now the speeding bloke was mainly sent down for having no insurance and no license. EXACTLY the same as this scrote. The speed in either case is irrelevant.
Why the discrepancy? 5 months for speeding, no license, and no insurance versus 200 quid for the same but with the death of a child.
Couldn't they have charged him with manslaughter?
Altogether now: The Law is an Ass.
Andy
Now the speeding bloke was mainly sent down for having no insurance and no license. EXACTLY the same as this scrote. The speed in either case is irrelevant.
Why the discrepancy? 5 months for speeding, no license, and no insurance versus 200 quid for the same but with the death of a child.
Couldn't they have charged him with manslaughter?
Altogether now: The Law is an Ass.
Andy
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