A car thief who killed an 80-year-old widow in a hit-and-run has been jailed for more than three years.
Unqualified driver Nathanial Teague, 26, ploughed into pensioner Alice Lucas at 60mph on a pedestrian crossing after stealing his ex-girlfriend’s Vauxhall Astra.
Her frail body was catapulted four metres in the air and landed on a grass verge – about 25 metres from where she was hit.
Teague then desperately tried to drive away but smashed his vehicle into another car.
He managed to steer the wreckage away from the scene on the A45 Coventry Road in Yardley, Birmingham, and dumped the car at his former partner’s house in Solihull, West Midlands.
Despite attempts to save Mrs Lucas, she died at the scene from her injuries.
Merlin Ferry, 22, had told police to go away and ‘investigate real crime’ when he was found with the weapon.
Officers stopped the student in his uninsured Saab and were searching for drugs when they arrested him for carrying the knife. He told the officers: ‘You can unarrest me now.
And he continued to show no remorse yesterday, complaining about being forced to get up early to travel to court from his Shropshire home.
The Marlborough-educated student received a community order after the judge delivered a stern lecture on the dangers of knife crime.
A cyber-criminal nicknamed the ‘Black Dragon’ has been jailed for masterminding an audacious attempt to hack into the UN’s computer systems to steal £6.5million worth of carbon credits.
Matthew Beddoes, 32, created a rogue ‘Trojan’ programme he called Zeus to transfer 426,108 Certified Emission Reduction credits from an account on the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism Registry in Bonn, Germany. He was jailed for 3-years…
A police community support officer (PCSO) has been jailed for seven years after being convicted of misconduct in a public office.
Father-of-two Peter Bunyan, 40, of Carharrack, near Camborne, was convicted of eight out of 12 counts of misconduct at Taunton Crown Court.
He had been accused of neglecting his duties by turning his police radio down on shifts before having sex with women.
Bunyan, an officer with Devon and Cornwall Police, denied all counts.
Just so I have this right…a man without a licence, insurance, drives at 60mph in a 30…KILLS someone on a zebra crossing… tries to drive away and crashes into another car before eventually escaping… gets THREE years… the same as a man that attempted to steal 6-million quids worth of credits… then we have waste of skin Ferry that sounds like a cracker to arrest… lol… gets a community sentence for carrying a knife…
NOW…
Balance this against idiot PCSO that: didn’t kill anyone…didn’t steal anything…did a biblically stupid thing…but…
GETS SEVEN YEARS!!!!! Holy crap…
Good old court eh?
Flabberghasted
The mind boggles.
While the PCSOs actions are indefensible and of course deserves dismissal, let’s be honest – PCSOs are only meant to attend ‘non-confrontational’ matters, so it’s not as if his inaction would have put anyone at any significant risk. If I was a loved one of Alice Lucas, I’d be very saddened at the low value placed by the courts on her taken life, particularly considering the callous circs. So a PCSO turning his radio off and shagging on duty is twice as serious as Ms Lucas being run over and killed by an uninsured and unlicensed driver who fled the scene and left her to die?
Any beaks able to shed any light on these decisions?
First! Woohoo. Closest I came on gadget’s blog was second.
I was shocked at the PCSO sentence. Why do only law enforcement get jailed lately? I really don’t understand.
Don’t start that silliness here
Did the PCSO plead? That is a pretty steep sentence and one which I would expect to be appealed.
I’d like to see CPS appealing the other sentences too.
Ever the optimistic drunk, me.
CPS only go for the easy target…like the CSA…
yup
There is just a little more to the story though:
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Camborne-Redruth-PCSO-Peter-Bunyan-gets-seven/story-18461510-detail/story.html#axzz2O6CmTecg
I saw that… as above…I agree with his sacking and prosecution-what else could be done?
But seven years?
People get less than that for armed robbery…
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Camborne-Redruth-PCSO-Peter-Bunyan-gets-seven/story-18461510-detail/story.html#axzz2O6CmTecg
Getting x times the civvy sentence goes with the job folks. Just ask any squaddie and the same is true for them.
Whats it like in your world brief?
Like the sas bloke that had a fire arm and 300rounds? Special case?
Really! Shagging on duty gets 7 years.
Driving a car with no licence, running over and killing an elderly lady then trying to make good your escape gets 3 years. That is some seriously messed up sentencing.
How exactly does these sentencing guidelines work again? Oh I forgot the guidelines go out of the window when anyone in the police force is prosecuted.
I tried to add the link to the newspaper article. There is a little more to it than just a ‘cop’ ulating on duty. PNC misuse and targetting vulnerable women etc.
Still 7 years is a hell of a long time. One of my clients recently got 8 for PWITs of nigh on 3 kilos of heroin. I would have done my grounds for appeal by now if that had been my case.
There is clearly more to it but seriously 7 years. Rapists, killers, child abusers get less than that. How is that ever right.
He is bring made an example of…simple and clear…mess with a pito system and you are going to jail…
I suppose he may appeal…but…on this side of the fence its wise to brace yourself and bend over nicely if you are convicted of ANY criminal offences…
I sincerely hope that those who represented him will appeal. Its a bottle tester but the adrenaline run is fantastic.
I’ve been to the appeal court…scary to address 3-lord justices…they ask irritating questions too…
http://tinyurl.com/bpo6c7z
Misusing PNC to ‘track down’ attractive women in his area, as well as the rest. A disgrace to be sure and some jail time doesn’t seem inappropriate. Still not ‘twice as bad’ as death by dangerous while uninsured/unlicenced and leaving the scene to let the victim die.
Agreed. The twat needs jail time but I know of offenders who have raped children and had less sentences. I just can’t get my head around it.
My point exactly…people killing through reckless behaviour should get a bigger sentence than idiots that shag people they meet of the Intel system…
Thank you for posting that link. i think that immediate custody was inevitable and he has done absolutely no favours to the service and those who strive to do their best for the community. If we are to see more of these prosecutions then some sort of sentencing guidelines ought to be introduced.
I guess they might but…I suspect that whilst such savage jail terms are bookmarked for cops et al they will do nothing…
Let’s just hope the slag that killed the oap gets his throat cut in jail.
I know someone in the prison service…he tells me that such gentlemen have a very hard time indeed…
Then we must do something about it. Justice is universal.
Lol…sure it is…
That’s why I have to represent myself in family court and I am up against a solicitor led legal team and a 3k a day barrister… Ex gets legal aid…so bottomless pit of money… I have a job so…unless I sell my house of course and pt my family on the street…
Yes..very fair.
Shou
Difficult I know since we need to maintain anonymity but I have access to Law Society Library and have done some Family Law if you are ever stuck re research.
Thank you… I may just do that…
The last bloke who went shagging on duty and got 9-months seemed an appropriate sentence. The problem there wasn’t so much the PC’s sentence but the fact that sentencing for people not in “public office” is so pathetic.
7 years just seems almost ridiculously excessive though.
I agree.
Shij
What I meant was that Justice is universal I mean the concept must be even if the practice is not. But of course when we lawyers bleat about reductions in legal aid and the effect that it will have on people, others think that we are only lamenting the loss to our own incomes which is how they will view the police when they highlight reductions in service etc. Our prefession rather like yours is one of the few where we are actually expected to work for nothing for the common good. I am happy to give the odd bit of advice here and there but there is a limit to it.
Agreed…
It does grate on me though when I turn up on my own…and ex turns up with: lawyer, assistant and a barrister…with a massive admin prepared file…
Yes it must be daunting, I do hope that it gets sorted soon.
On a similar note, changes to Legal Aid removed the concept of a litigators certificate. This provided for a clerk for Crown Court. Overnight advocates went from having someone to support them and take careful notes to having no one behind them whilst trying to keep accurate records whilst at the same time cross examining witnesses. In simple cases it really doesn’t matter but in some cases it places quite a strain on one.
I bet… hence my comment… I agree with the concept…but it’s a long way away.
Seven years for shagging on duty!!! Let’s hope that John Major,John Prescott and Paddy Pantsdown are the next ones to get nicked.Police are held to higher account than the public so shouldn’t our leaders be held to even higher account?
yup…
although…to be fair…they didn’t research their lays on the Police intel network…
lol…I think two Jags should have…
I leave my home and I see women everywhere. Being a talkative type I find myself chatting to absolute strangers. Being happily married I have no desire to stray but for crying out loud why on earth would anyone need to use the PNC to find crumpet? Actually why would you want to seduce someone with form anyway? Especially if you were in the Job?
My old job of DC on the sex offender team can give insight…this chap may have a fetish…he may like the thrill of the secret activity… this explains why he would take such risks…
Spot on. It all sounds somewhat predatory, doesn’t it?
Yup…I for one will be even more careful about what I say in emails…