A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks.
Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007.
The driver of the other vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed.
Lord Ahmed, of Rotherham, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court. He had admitted driving dangerously.
Only 12 weeks for a life?
Justice has been denied in this case from the outset.
"The court had heard how Lord Ahmed sent and received a series of five text messages while driving in the dark at speeds of, and above, 60mph along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway...Mr Justice Wilkie made clear the texting incident had no bearing on the fatal collision...He said: "After a full and thorough police investigation it's clear the dangerous driving had no causal link to the accident".
Man texting while driving, crashes into another car killing the other driver, and there is no causal link? How come there is a casual link when a youth fires a gun and the bullet ricochets and kills Rhys Jones?
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