Football manager fined for forcing cyclist off road

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Speaking in mitigation, Richard Dawson said Cook was frustrated with the bike rider and he was rushing to get home since he had spent three hours on a train.

Did he need a poo?

Something odd here. You can't drive from London Road into Union Street  as there are bollards at the bottom of Union Street. I suppose he could have gone up John Street and into Union Street that way, but why anyone who was 'in a rush' would even consider going up either of these roads in a car is beyond me - they are narrow, don't go anywhere and are pedestrian in all but name. If he was going fast enough even to think about overtaking a cyclist I would regard it as driving dangerously. Only thing I can think is that he lived on Union Street, which makes it one of the stupider examples of MGIF.

I wonder if he is a bully in his chosen line of work, lot of power and control of course, not quite as much as the injury or death that could result from using a vehicle as a weapon, slightly less protection as a pointlessly massive BMW, but as the recent child abuse scandals in football have shown, it's there.

So he basically admits he did it, admitted it was because he was Very Important And In A Rush, but the CPS accepts it as "Careless"? If he intended to do it, then it's not 'careless', is it?

As with all these local comments sections, there is the normal tool who runs through the usual gammon list of faults against cyclists including insurance, road tax, rlj and riding two abreast and essentially is stating the cyclist was probably at fault. 

However an interesting comment is that cyclists apparently cycle along and hit his roof. To me, the only time I have seen cyclists bang on a roof is to make the driver aware they are about to crush the cyclist or remonstrarting on other shit driving. Never a common occurence so the question is what had he done?

It's a good job there were no cars on the road or he would have forced them off the road too.

It's a good job there were no cars on the road or he would have forced them off the road too.

"Richard Dawson, defending, told the court that Cook was frustrated with the cyclist as he was in a rush to get home having been on a train for over three hours."

That's a defence?  Sorry, but it isn't and he should have been more severely treated because of it, and for driving a BMW and for initially denying the charge then pleading guilty to the lesser.  If there were witnesses, plural, to his deliberate dangerous driving, why did the CPS accept his plea to the lesser charge of careless driving?

It's pretty clear from the relatively heavy sentence which way the judge was going to go.

Another CPS cave in to accept a lesser guilty plea and get brownie points with the Justice Ministry on how well they are performing. 

I think someone forgot to remove the first draft of this story from the post. That or I suffered from intense deja vu while reading it. Maybe it was just a case of deja vu but it seems like the the first draft is at the bottom of the story.

'... in mitigation, Richard Dawson said Cook was frustrated with the bike rider and he was rushing to get home since he had spent three hours on a train'

I don't want to jump on the 'get the boot into the judiciary' trip that seems to have become a national pastime of late, but if I were a judge, and some scrote tried that line on me, I'd double his sentence just for being f*****g cheeky.

someone should use a baseball bat as a weapon on him (while sitting in a car) and watch as the courts give them points on their license (not)...