Judge sends "clear message" as Norfolk man jailed for 10 months for causing GBH to cyclist

Depends what sort of mirror it is. Electrically adjusted, folding heated mirrors plus fitting your looking at about £400 at a main dealer.

Looking at the guidelines this is a little bit low but not horrendously so. With a starting point of 18 months he would have got 1/3 off for pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity so would have been looking at a year or so.

In many respects it is amazing he wasn't given a suspended sentence so at least that is something.

Hope the rider involved makes a better than expected recovery.

Clear message? That sentence is a joke. Sounds like the conviction is not for GBH with intent but for the lesser GBH offence which carries the same sentence as ABH.... but still, that should of been a 3 year sentence at least. We must always take into account that unless its Murder the offender will always only serve half their sentence and a lot of times much less than half. This guy will be out in less than 5 months.

10 months is an insult to the victim and reinforces to us all that the British Justice System is a fucking disgrace.

10 months is a joke. He clearly has issues which made his act premeditated. 5 years in prison would be more appropriate.

He should have stayed in the car; I sincerely doubt he'd have received a custodial sentence f he'd driven into his victim instead of shouldering him.

Any kind of jail term (and associated criminal record) has a dramatic impact on the perp. He would have been desperately trying to avoid a custodial. I think it's a good outcome.

460 pounds seems excessive for a bit of glass - maybe he should just drive a cheaper car, and take more care overtaking and parking (or better, stop driving, since he's clearly not fit to drive). As for his lawyer's pathetic attempt to defend him - wouldn't it be nice if they got punished for being lying toerags as well.

I mean come on, you're minding your own business and someone does this to you, and the perpetrator only get's 10 months?

These injuries are life changing for anyone (OK we are not talking loss of limbs or a faculty), but for a cyclist more so, on account of the active lifestyle. I get a little crazy if I don't go cycling every so often, and if something was preventing me like an injury that was caused by someone's grievous intent, it would be hard to come to terms with to say the least.

Let's hope he has a really dreadful time in prison

I can personally vouch for the aggression shown towards cyclists in the Norfolk region being a born and bred bumpkin.. Considering the locale and the generally laid back atmosphere that our part of the country displays it's a wonder there aren't considerably more cases like this. just the other day I was harangued by a motorist after quite legitimately passing him kerbside over a mini roundabout which resulted in him scaring the crap out of me by leaning on his horn, he then proceeded overtake me at speed to pull as tightly into the kerb as possible to prevent me passing him again at the next mini roundabout.. Needless to say we had words none of them pleasant..

Sound like the aggressor picked his mark, lots of young fit looking cyclists pass him then he spots a 60 odd year old cyclist and thinks easy prey, total shit bag.

cyclist hit wing mirror, or driver couldn't be arsed to overtake and hit cyclist with wing mirror?

I wonder which Is true?

The irony is that he got done for GBH because he got out and had a go. If he had used his car as a weapon to run the lad off the road he probably would have got away with a driving offence.

Pathetic sentence if you ask me, the poor lad who had his hip broken will no doubt be in agony for years to come once arthritis sets in, which is inevitable at his age.

Yet again the courts let us down.

I wonder about what type of driving the guy had displayed as his wing mirror seems to be very accident prone?

Driving very close, maybe?

And as Wolfshade said, the sentence for the victim is much more than 10 months, it's possibly a lifetime of reduced physical health.

Well presumably the doors are open for a civil suit for injury compensation now. Does the perpetrator have third party insurance that would cover him against assault....he'll be lucky to still have a house at the end of this.

Of course had he been in his car, he would have avoided gaol time.

I am not sure 10 months is a clear message. If we compare this with the victim of this scene who spent 3 months unable to work and move about, he has had at least 6 months of troubled sleep and the fracture may never repair, meaning that his issues sleeping and being unable to cycle the same long distances are with him until he dies, which I am sure is much more than a measley 10 months.

A clear message would have been a maximum 5 year sentence.

I hold a grudge against motorists but don't go around attacking them.