Dangerous Driver Saved From Jail - by Overcrowding ; a 20-Year-Old Driver Who Ran Down a Man While Using His Mobile Telephone and Broke a Second Victim's Arm in an Unprovoked Street Attack has Been Spared Custody - Because of Overcrowded Prisons.

Western Morning News, The › August 06, 2008

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A 20-year-old driver who ran down a man while using his mobile telephone and broke a second victim's arm in an unprovoked street attack has been spared custody - because of overcrowded prisons.

At Exeter Crown Court yesterday, Judge Jeremy Griggs told Bradley Hale: "These offences clearly pass the custody threshold, but the prisons are full to overcrowding and the question I have to ask myself is can I punish you without immediate prison?

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Dangerous Driver Saved From Jail - by Overcrowding ; a 20-Year-Old Driver Who Ran Down a Man While Using His Mobile Telephone and Broke a Second Victim's Arm in an Unprovoked Street Attack has Been Spared Custody - Because of Overcrowded Prisons.

"If I send you to prison, you will not serve the sentence you deserve because of...

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