To think Auriol Grey being jailed is not appropriate.

You can't just kill someone because you think they're in the wrong

Good job she wasn't wearing a short skirt. She'd be proper asking for it then 🙄

Seemingly you can on the internet.

Yes, because that's exactly the same, isn't it?

What, as victim blaming. Yes, exactly the same when you're saying things like, "people have to take some responsibility".

Because she doesn’t have a disability. The judge said she has no learning difficulties or relevant mental problems.

Why is this so hard to understand?

I suppose we reached the point where an unsubstantiated mention of ‘mental health’ lets you off the hook for virtually anything quite a while ago 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yeah it's the same concept, own it

Mmhmmm. Yep. Completely comparable situations.

Are those saying that we should make further allowance questioning her capacity?

If you plea of lack of capacity you probably don't get to go home either btw, you probably just go to secure unit because your defense is literally I cannot be trusted to not do this again

Oh god are people still victim blaming the poor cyclist?!

How is blaming the victim of a crime not like blaming the victim of a crime?

As I said, you're right, all situations are exactly alike.

Hard of thinking obviously. It's Friday and I'm about to have dinner so can't be bothered to get the crayons out to explain.

But @OneTC has nailed it.

Stop digging then 👍

If it was an innocent mistake from a poor disabled woman, she'd probably show some remorse and regret for her actions and not just flounce off to go shopping as an elderly lady is dying in the road

People defending a fucking convicted killer because the other person is a cyclist

Digging what?

Nail on head

Jesus Fucking Christ

Disabled people can be arseholes too.

Not defending 'a fucking convicted killer', rather suggesting the 3 year prison sentence is excessive for what what a tragic accident.

She shouldn't have shouted and gesticulated, the cyclist should've controlled and stopped the bike.

Oh, did I misunderstand the circumstances of this case? Did the pedestrian push the cyclist into the road?

Course they can be but again it is understandable imo that a partially sighted person may be alarmed and gesticulate to a cyclist on the pavement heading their way.

She behaved in a way that meet the standard for common assault and this incident occasioned her death.

You don't need to touch someone to assault them

I hope this case makes Local Authorities reconsider where and how they expect cyclists and pedestrians to share spaces. It states clearly in the Highway Code that cyclists MUST NOT cycle on the pavement (rule 64), so why Councils are wilfully taking obvious pavements and redesignating them as shared spaces, I don’t know. There is far too great a speed differential between pedestrians and cyclists for it to make sense to force them so close together, especially when cyclists often seem to adopt a similar mentality to car drivers when it comes to slower road or pavement users - that they too might be walking if they had the time, but clearly their journey is more important if they have opted for a faster mode of transport, so they resent having to slow down or get off their bike to push it for a bit.

Too many cyclists would cycle fast and very close to the pedestrian and/or far too close to the edge of the pavement than slow down. Tbh, I’m surprised nasty accidents don’t happen more often - there a certainly fairly regular near misses and people being accidentally clipped, which can be alarming and upsetting. Some cyclists are, frankly, piss poor at cycling and don’t want to slow down or get off because they will start to wobble if they do so and then find it hard to get going again. You don’t even have to take a cycling proficiency test to start inflicting yourself on other members of the public. So, whilst this is a tragic case and the pedestrian was aggressive, may have physically hit the cyclist and callously walked away from the scene of the accident, I have some sympathy with the sentiment that the pavement in question should not have been a shared space.