Mohammed Aqueel Hussain, 26, of Burnley, Lancashire, was on parole from a 2001 conviction for wounding, when, while driving a stolen VW Golf with a provisional license (he hadn’t had a lesson in ten years) and no insurance, he killed a three-year-old girl, Levi Bleasdale, in a hit-and-run accident that he never reported. Hussain pled guilty to careless driving and handling stolen goods, and was sentenced to twelve weeks, leading Tony Blair, among others, to call for stricter sentencing. (BBC, Feb. 22; Mirror, Feb. 24; TimesOnline Law Blog, Feb. 22).
Overlawyered is pleased to be the only American blog on the TimesOnline’s blogroll; one can find our UK coverage here.
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I hope you meant that you are pleased to the *first* American blog on their blogroll, not the *only* one.
People who have been watching the UK for any length of time will say that this sort of BS is typical. It’s nice that they finally NOTICED, though.
They have a serious crime problem over there, in no small part because the criminals are better protected by the law than the law-abiding.
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