Man jailed for ramming bicycle thief with 4x4

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ape x said:

He was a drug dealer. Never knew they were so highly regarded on PH...

Not only that, but if anyone cared to look at Wobbegong's link they'd read

Alloa Advertiser said:

The incident took two-and-half years to come to trial as McKnight fell out with seven sets of lawyers. In the end, the court had to impose a solicitor, Dick Sandeman, to represent him.

McKnight, who has two pages of previous convictions, was jailed for five years at the High Court in Glasgow in 2004 for being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs.

I'm amazed at folks defending a guy with a record like that. Plus of course he saw a bloke riding a relatively cheap and common bike, of which there are thousands produced and he decided that specific one was his partner's bike so he ran the bloke over. How would it have turned out if the guy had bought the bike ?

[chow pan toon]

You've made the mistake of assuming anyone has actually managed to get past the bit where a thief got hurt before blindly smashing out a reply on their spittle-soaked keyboard.

[aka_kerrly]

A frankly obscene overreaction from the driver but at the same time I have absolutely no sympathy for those who commit crimes and then play the victim when it goes wrong.

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wc98 said:

quite a few people seem to have missed the fact the bloke doing the running over is a convicted drug dealer. there will be few, if any drug dealers in that part of the world that deal drugs without dishing out a fair bit of violence in their line of work.

The thief was stealing a bike not drugs, there is no mention of drugs in the article. I'm sure the lawyers would be all over how past convictions are not relevant to new prosecutions. That should only reflect on sentence, it is not grounds for conviction. We need to see the victims in each case treated fairly, in this case he is clearly the victim.

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dudleybloke said:

A totally disproportionate use of force.

He should have used a smaller car instead.

A Gee Whizz

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What sort of 4x4 was it ?

Dodge Ram ?

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Coolbanana said:

I will and have killed to protect my Family

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