Clare Carver was hit by car of a crack addict. She was left seriousely injured. Now, Clare is disabled and Bermingham, the driver, sentenced to 150 days jail. A soft sentence, many people said. Personally, I don't know what to say. Sure it's a tragedy to the Carvers but somhow I pity that Birmingham. Just look at the pic on "The Sun online". The guy is ugly as shit...

If the addict cleans up, maybe the victim could bring a civil claim for financial damages, so that the addict pays for the rest of his/her life for her care...

Hmmm...certainly, the victim can claim vengeance the way you said but do you think a crack addict will have the money to pay out? I guess, the guy don't have the money to buy anything else than crack. My question still is, whether this was a soft sentence or not. How would have you convicted the guy if you had been the judge?

Coming off crack is not a soft option. Go in any treatment centre as I often do (not as a patient mind you!) and you will see. 150 days approximates to 5 months of treatment to reform the addict into someone productive again. It is not a pleasure trip. The amount of money it costs to feed the crack habit could buy a house for someone within a year. The person made a mistake. The injury was not intentional. So do we kill/abuse the addict because we do not like crack addicts who became addicted through error, or do we kill/abuse the crack addict because the sentence for the unintentional injury was seemingly not long enough due to us not liking crack addicts and the addict making an error of judgement? I think all car and truck drivers who accidentally crash into people whilst smoking a cigarette, eating an apple and/or unwraping a chocolate bar should be hung, drawn and quartered and their remains dragged through the streets behind monkey bikes for all to jeer at (jeer at the remains, not at the monkey bikes) but the government won't do it... nor ride on the bikes...!!

Somhow ever since I have joined this site your comments pouring off wit and understanding....like this very much...=)maybe you would give a great philosopher

I glad to hear someone take this serously. I almost jumped up into the air when you compared that to truckers hit people out of carelessness. Especially your punchline about the monkey bikes and the monkeys and politicians...awesome. Well it's right a treatment would help the junkie out. But I know it will be a circel....junkie is clean but then he won't have friends, maybe he will get a lousy job following he will fall back. A pretty pile of money just drained right into the gutter. I guess, thats the point about people are fighting. They think a more severe punishment would lower the costs and heal addiciton as well. But still, i agree totaly.

It may not have been intentional but this is not justice. He'll come out of his sentence and will probably commit another crime, not out of spite or wanting to, but for money for more crack. Our system sucks, people get sent to jail, they come out addicts, people go to hospitals run by the NHS and come out with a super bug. Why are we so weak

I think someone's putting stuff in our tap water to make us so weak... I think it's when drunks on pain killers urinate in dams and then the homeopathic dilution effect multiplies its potency...