Drunk mother with children in car was high on ‘cocktail’ of drugs when she killed cyclist, court told
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/drunk-mother-with-children-in-car-was-high-on-cocktail-of-drugs-when-she-killed-cyclist-court-told/a126168000.html
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The appalling killing of a decent man cycling to meet his wife, (to celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary) by a drunk & high yoke in a car.
She will do prison time, 5 years with final six months suspended. But more needs to be done to stop this preventable slaughter.
She was already serving a ban, the car was defective, she was speeding & driving erratically. Oh yeah and open bottle of wine on the passenger seat and her two young children with her. What a horrible person.
Wow that headline keeps getting worse and worse
And someone doing a wee bit of piracy gets 20 years. This country has no justice system
did drugs and drove drunk with her own kids in the car .. I don’t think it’s just addiction issues that make someone selfish, I think they are selfish to begin with.
[ “she has lost custody of her children, lost her job and lives in isolation from her community.](https://www.roscommonherald.ie/drunk-driver-with-open-wine-bottle-and-children-in-car-jailed-for-killing-gifted-teacher-and-cycli_arid-97798.html)” Kids are better off without her. Luckily she didn’t kill them as well.
That should be a life sentence
Four years for killing someone while drunk driving? If you want to kill someone in this country, do it in a car!!
Mathew broderick killed a mother and daughter in the north in the 80ies from speeding and driving on the wrong side of the roadand got off with a 100 pound fine. The country has always been soft on road deaths.
5 fucking years with the final 6 months suspended for driving drunk, on drugs, killing an innocent man all while having two children in the car.. and already banned for speeding
What the actual fuck is wrong in this country. Seriously.
This scourge of the earth, piece of shit CUNT should never see the light of day again. Those children should be permanently removed from her custody. But no, instead a slap on the wrist and a fucking disgusting insult to this poor man and his family. Shocker.
I hope she never again has a minutes peace. What a waste of oxygen and excuse for a human being and mother.
And also fuck the Council because that road should not be 100km/h
> The court was told that Lillis McMahon was uninsured to drive the Vauxhall Astra and was disqualified from driving on the day but that disqualification was subsequently overturned on appeal.
how many uninsured drivers are going around these days? back in the day (i’m old), nobody would dream of driving without insurance. they might drive if tax or NCT was out, but no way without insurance. and i’m aware those things being expired apparently negate the insurance but yeno. it was a social rule where you were a proper scumbag if you drove and had no insurance
No wonder this shite keeps happening and accidents are ever on the rise. They need to do a whole pile more with punishment if they want to prevent more.
I always said if you’re going to murder someone then do it with your car . Out in 2 years as opposed to 10
So, she gets three years knocked off because she pleaded guilty and expressed remorse? I mean, she was caught bang to rights. She admitted she did it when she was arrested but she gets credit for pleading guilty and saying she feels bad about it. That doesn’t sit right with me.
Isn’t the maximum ten years? Why isn’t that the headline sentence here? What the fuck else could she have done wrong bar being in reverse? So sad…
Is there a proper link to the article that you don’t need a subscription for?
Disgusting sentence.
5 years with the last 6 months suspended!! Christ, that is so incredibly insulting, demeaning and inconsiderate to that poor man’s family.
Not one hour ago a woman overtook me and my child, into oncoming traffic, on a small housing estate distributor road, clipped my handlebar, apparently didn’t like me shouting “HEY” in fright, slammed brakes on parked sideways in the road and started ranting at me about “you can’t cycle side by side”. I tried to move past, she drove the car into me, hit me with the mirror which folded in, then started screaming about “don’t damage my car”. I got out on the pavement, with 12 year old child following mind, and she tried to follow us in to the estate, screaming out the window all the time. Thankfully a pedestrian-only bit blocked her path.
This is the experience on the road with a (potentially) sober person. We’re absolutely messed up in the head when it comes to road behaviours, it has gone way too far – crackdown time. And nutjobs on drugs? Life in prison, sorry for the kids but these people had little enough regard for the lives of others, not going to worry about the consequences to theirs.
Another day, another miscarriage of justice.
Irish judges REALLY love criminals and hate their victims, don’t they?
She should also be charged with child endangerment. What mitigating factors did she have?
Yet again, if you want to kill someone in this country, do it with a car. You’ll get an incredibly lenient sentence
His poor family,and ruining her own children’s lives too,if anyone says it was a moment of madness it was a verryyy long moment!
She said “last night wasn’t planned” So she was drinking the night before and was still over the legal limit the next day. Let that be a lesson to all of us. That was at 12.15 in the afternoon. I wonder what time she stopped drinking or did she stop al all?
How does she get 5 years with 6 months suspended, and the guy who hit someone who was lying on the road gets 5 years, both were banned, she killed a guy who didn’t contribute to his death, he killed someone lying on the road at 2:30 am, she was drunk, with kids in the car, speeding in a defective car, he had none of that, but he gets a longer sentence?
Unpopular opinion, but people like this have a whole host of mental issues, from addiction to deep routed personality disorders and are psychologically unwell. Clearly a danger to society and needs to be removed from society, but I definitely believe there are severe issues in peoples brains who act like this, I don’t think a normal healthy person is capable of such selfish and poor decision making, I believe this is a mental illness.