Jackson - the victim in 24hrs in police custody

[Charlieiscool]

I felt so terribly sad for Jackson, run over on a pavement by a young man who had smoked several joints, done some coke and drank a few desperadoes. The driver was pitiful too really, a young man with poor judgement and no ability to think of consequences. I wondered what his background was.
Poor Jackson. Does anyone know what happened to him? They said he had life changing injuries but that can mean a lot of things.

The driver was pitiful but seemed to have terribly good recall considering all the stuff he allegedly took

I just felt frustrated that the CPS didn't think driving a car at people - having deliberately driven onto the pavement and then went back over the victim= then thought that attempted murder was off the cards.

What was he trying to do? Tickle the victim with the tyres?

Interesting that the police said it was a narrow walkway too. Remarkable driving skills when so much drink and drugs surely would have impaired his driving skills...

In my humble opinion? The Police did their best. The CPS let them and the victim down.

At the end they said he went home, but I assume with those sort of injuries his mobility will be forever affected and his mental healthy too. I doubt he's able to go to the kebab shop at 4am with his coins for some dinner. :-( A horrible one, not sure what justice looks like in that situation, although I did think the sentence was a bit short.

Ditto
Poor guy. I hope he's got support he needs.
If i knew him now i'd be taking a kebab round for him.

The sentence was shockingly lenient.

The cctv footage was appalling, I really hope the victim isn't suffering too much now, he seemed in so much pain in the hospital.

I also initially felt there was something pitiful about the driver, that was until he was shown the previous footage of the fight and him speaking to the PC with his bloodied nose, and he started laughing and was proud of himself for putting up a fight. Seemed to have no appreciation of the severity of what he'd done.

Yup. The smirk finished any concern I had for him.

Despite having been involved in a scuffle he denied suffering any head injury. Clearly he had an eye injury and bruising/scrapes on his head.

One could call someone a liar for less.

And I believe the severity was known. Which may be why he came out with 'I was only trying to scare them' by driving a car at people and yet not stopping short. Knew the right thing to say I feel to get a lesser charge.

I'm not involved in the drugs culture at all but one would wonder with all the 'dealer' evidence in the car, why you would get off your face during deals. Hardly conducive to be making sound business decisions...

Call me a suspicious auld trout but I smell cod.