Casualty and Holby City star admits crashing her car into a nurse while high on cocaine at 10.14am and leaving him with serious injuries

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14515829/casualty-holby-city-star-guilty-drug-driving-bbs-cocaine.html

by cennep44

13 comments

  1. To save giving the Daily Mail a click, she wasn’t jailed.

    >An actress who starred in BBC medical dramas Casualty and Holby City has admitted drug driving after she ploughed into a Skoda at 10.14am, leaving a nurse who was at the wheel seriously injured.
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    >Magistrates heard Amanda Mealing, who played cardio thoracic consultant Connie Beauchamp in the hit shows, drifted across a road before colliding with Mark Le Sage’s vehicle as he was on his way to work.
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    >Prosecutor Marie Stace told the court Mealing, 57, who appeared under her married name of Amanda Sainsbury, suffered a cut to the head, a broken wrist and a broken clavicle in the January 2024 smash.
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    >She admitted driving with cocaine in her system and driving without due care and attention and was banned from driving for 22 months and ordered to pay a fine of £485.

  2. Hnmmmm.

    Give her her 2 hours of community service, a letter, and let her drive again by next week.

  3. This two tier justice is getting beyond a joke the average person “working class “ would get 18 months in jail for that,

  4. So, if you read a little further down it’s no surprise that the DM have buried the lede. It’s likely the car drifted to her passing out briefly due to hypoglycaemia as her blood sugar levels were dangerously low; she’s also diabetic.

    However, she’s been banned from driving before, absolutely shouldn’t have been on the clams and of all things of course it’s fucking CONNIE.

  5. Casualty is still a thing! I remember watching that decades ago. It was always fun guessing how someone was going to end up in A&E. Oh look he has a chainsaw and is climbing a ladder.

  6. At least the new Holby storyline where she steals medications to get high will be well acted

  7. Ffs drivers.

    We’ve tried making you get insurance, driving licences, fines, prison, bans, driving tests, traffic lights, speed cameras, drugs tests, spot checks and police to make you follow the rules yet you completely fail all the time! What more can we do?!

  8. I love how in this country the cocaine crisis is as rampant as America’s opioid crisis, but because everyone within a whiff of power snorts it like it’s going out of fashion we just pretend there’s no crisis.

  9. “It’s something she’s deeply ashamed of. She’s not somebody who takes drugs at all. Her brother died of a drugs overdose when he was 18 and she says herself that she should have known better.’

    He said she was having a terrible time following the death of her father, her best friend and her dog, and she was also going through divorce proceedings.”

    Apparently driving coked up is OK if your dog has recently died.

  10. She should feel the full force of the law. Causality is just some bull shit show but the law will treat her as if she’s Mariah Carey

  11. Needs to be jail and there really really needs to be more done about the scourge of cocaine in our society.

  12. Oh so the weight loss wasn’t, as she claimed, chronic pain then?

  13. Less than 2 year banned from driving and under £500 fine is pathetic

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