Seems fair, 3.5 year = Someones life! No wonder people are not getting the point.

Human life means next to nothing to a judge anymore.

So if the law hasn’t changed, out in about 9 months or so. Doubt this will have any impact on Grainger.

If it was the Judges wife the sentence would of been 5x as long.

I’m not sure if the judge’s wife would be riding in the passenger seat of a stolen car, but whatever.

Nothing to do with the judge. It’s the sentencing guidelines, set by the appeal and Supreme Court that they have to follow.
You want changes, talk to your MP.

A life for a life IMO

Most sentences handed out now are from earlier cases. Called precedence. So the judge just copy cats a earlier sentence.. No work at all, just a few seconds doing a search on legal computer data base and done. Leaning more and more to the lighter side of sentencing, it’s not a deterrent, it’s a joke.

The key is to catch this Grainger and have him corrected/educated, before this outcome resulted.
There are many more like him around PG at the moment, Focus on them before its to late.
At this point nothing can be done. Its a waste.
At the same time, an easer way for this story to play out was the death of that Grainger guy.

Well, since justice was not served in this case, I hope that Mr. Grainger at least feels bad that his stupidity took someone’s life. We can hope that the shock of the accident will help him see the err of his ways.
metalman.

The sad thing is that Mr. Grainger couldn’t care less that he was the reason for someone’s death. He will do his time and get out early with good behaviour. Then it’s on again.

For what it’s worth I seem to remember the original article somewhere that stated that Mr. Grainger has never had a drivers license!

So tell me how a 5 year year prohibition is going to make him change his ways?

When will this madness end?

I’ll tell you when it will end, when it’s eye for eye and tooth for tooth.

Yea right like that’s ever gonna happen here in Canada or the U.S. for that matter.

We are so backwards it isn’t even funny.

The sad thing is that we will never ever see any political party support sentences that are deserving of the crime committed.

sentences do need to be much longer. it should be up to the inmate to reduce the sentence down to a more reasonable time frame, but only in the spirit of addictions recovery, committed restitution arrangements, growth in therapeutic mental health, apology to victims, and top notch behaviour before and after release. if not, long, arduous sentences.

Maybe we should try a 25 year sentence in such cases of manslaughter. It might bring the victim back from the dead. Stranger things have happened …….. in the zombie movies that seem to be filling the theatres these days …….. ;-)

I am with steeliepete …… try avoidance therapy rather than punishment.

Speaking of zombies, our forefathers used to believe frontal lobotomies were excellent avoidance procedures.

gus I don`t know if you are serious this time or not. LOL

Should be mandatory sentences for all crimes. I don’t care if you had a bad child hood..it’s not an excuse for raping or murdering someone. I don’t care you didn’t date the prom queen, you stole the car or robbed those people. If you choose to do the crime then you have chosen to do the time as well. Why should a person in prison get better medical and dental than a person working full time?

Make jail a place you don’t want to be.

I have recently been in court a few times with my lady over some issues she has with an ex.
What is really bad is, she never gets the same judge for the same issue, the judge is never up to date on the case, and she and the ex spend a good amount of time catching the judge up, and of course since they both have their own version of the case, the judge then takes a bunch of time reading the case. A huge waste of time. No wonder our system is so backed up.