charity no: SC042541. Cycling Weekly is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The reality is that the way in which the justice system deals with mistakes, carelessness, recklessness and deliberately dangerous behaviour by all road users has long been in need of review. Charlie Alliston, 20, ploughed into pedestrian Kim. Speaking outside the court, Allistons mother, Karan, said her son had been sentenced appropriately and thanked the judge for handling the case fairly. The third firm, Pink Express Ltd, had already been dissolved when he claimed to have worked for it. View our online Press Pack. Charlie Alliston, then 18, was travelling on a fixed-wheel track bike with no front brakes before crashing into Kim Briggs in February last year. The 20-year-old was convicted in August of causing bodily harm through wanton and furious driving but acquitted of manslaughter in relation to the death of Mrs Briggs. "I am calling for an introduction of laws of causing Death or Serious Injury by Dangerous or Careless Cycling, thereby bringing cycling laws into line with the Road Traffic Act.". Former scaffolder Alliston had told the jury he worked as a cycle courier for 'six to eight months' prior to the collision. "The victim could have been any pedestrian. "The victim could have been any pedestrian. On BBC radio, news-actor Tony Livesey by name and lie did he by nature, exaggerated the spin: In trying to emulate something hes seen in [Lucas Brunnels courier racing] movies [Charlie Alliston has] taken his front brakes off Im just saying if you start to go on the wrong side of the road, go the wrong way up a one way street, and take your brakes off you run the risk of harming other people. A cyclist who knocked over and killed a 44-year-old woman in east London has been sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders' institution. In a further twist to the perjury allegation the Daily Mail has been told that the officer tasked with investigating Alliston has a chequered past. Of course you did not set out to cause the harm you did but the jury have found that you were aware of the risks and went on to take them.. Mrs Briggs had gone for a walk at lunchtime near the office of genealogy website Find My Past where she worked. On behalf of my son Charlie and all his family we would like to express our sincere condolences to the Briggs family for their loss, she said. The judge, Wendy Thomas, warned he faced a custodial sentence but said it was not a certainty until she had heard mitigation at the sentencing hearing. It will involve a range of road safety and cycling organisations, as well as the general public and will consider different ways in which safety can be further improved between cyclists, pedestrians and motorists.
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