From the Express
Sajid Hussain, 36, nodded off behind the wheel moments before he ploughed into David Hinton, 47, as he strapped his baby into a child car seat.
Mr Hinton’s wife and two of their young children, aged two and five, were treated for minor injuries and shock after the fatal collision. The youngest child was “thrown into the air” by the impact and was found upside down in the car.
His wife Nadine and children Christopher and Oliver were cut free by firefighters after the collision on 2pm on June 20 last year. Mr Hinton was taken to A&E but tragically died in hospital two days later on June 22nd.
The court heard Hussain, a postman, had been working since 4.30am that morning and had not eaten since 3.30am because he was fasting for the Islamic holy month Ramadan.
Hussain was handed an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after a judge ruled he had shown “genuine remorse”. The postman was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work, banned from driving and ordered to retake his test if he wished to regain his licence.
Appearing in a black suit and black jacket, Hussain bowed his head and wept tears from his eyes throughout the hearing.
Addressing Hussain, Judge Burbridge added: “You told the police that you must have blacked out. All of the medical signs showed you were fit and well and there was no evidence that you blacked out. The damage you have done to the Hinton family is immeasurable harm by your carelessness.
“You had a momentary loss of attention but with a devastating effect.”
Samantha Powis, defending, said: “There are no words of regret or apology that Mr Hussain can say that are sufficient to heal the pain that he has caused, and he knows that…It is impossible to say for sure that he dozed off, as the prosecution state, or whether he just had an episode. He has said that he cannot remember what happened, and it is not possible to say what did happen.”
What happened is that he drove while in a condition of dehydration that impaired his ability to drive safely. Had that impairment been through alcohol or drugs then there is an offence on the statute book, conviction of which WOULD have had him sent to prison. I’m not sure that the wording isn’t such that impairment through deliberate dehydration couldn’t be included. But would the infiltrated and partisan Crown Prosecution Service dare? And if they did would our modern Judiciary, carefully selected for their conformist and politically correct attitudes, treat a defendant the same?
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