Martin Reilly sentenced to 11 years and three months for causing the death by dangerous driving of cyclist Gao Gao – Ross Lydall Twitter

by jaredce

9 comments

  1. This is a pleasingly long sentence and makes a change from the tiny sentences often given in cases such as this.

    I hope he’d also get a lifetime driving ban, but I won’t hold my breath.

  2. He should’ve pretended he worked for the US military or embassy, you’re allowed to do whatever you want then apparently.

  3. We all make mistakes. I make mistakes in traffic while riding my bike and while driving. I have *some* sympathy for people who cause harm due to human error.

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    This was not a mistake, this is all but murder. He deserves every second of that sentence.

  4. “Prior to the collision, he had driven the wrong way up a one-way street, driven through a red light and had crossed to the wrong side of the road to overtake two cars immediately before crashing into Gao Gao, who was wearing bright clothing and had a flashing light on the front of her bike.

    Reilly, who had **20 previous convictions** and was on police bail at the time, fled the overturned vehicle with his father, James Reilly, who was a passenger in the car.”

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/gao-gao-cyclist-hit-and-run-hackney-london-trial-sentencing-b1133890.html

    6.5 years in prison is not enough here.

  5. So he’ll be out in what? 5 and a half years? 

    Absolutely pathetic, throw away the key. There’s barely a deterrent for driving like a massive cunt and literally killing people in this country, drivers are the most entitled demographic we have and get off with completely pathetic sentences (if they get one at all). 

  6. I had to look this one up, he was doing 50mph in a 20mph zone full of pedestrians and children and cyclists and pets? Selfish selfish waste of skin.

  7. Death by dangerous driving should not exist as a charge in law, it should be a manslaughter charge.

    Though sentences for manslaughter are often less it seems.

  9. We need a radical rethink of what we let drivers get away with every day. Each and every commute I have drivers nearly take me out while I’m cycling, and even a walk to the high street often involves some idiot not giving way when they should, beeping impatiently while you cross the road, that sort of thing.

    We’ve allowed our roads to be completely dominated by cars, spewing out pollution, changing the climate and putting pedestrians and cyclists at risk.

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