Law Serial drink-driver avoids jail 'for being a woman'

A judge gave a serial drink-driver a chance to avoid jail because she is a woman.
Victoria Parry, 30, hit three other cars after downing a bottle of wine.
Judge Sarah Buckingham said Parry, an alcoholic who had escaped an abusive relationship, would have gone "straight down the stairs" to jail if she were a man.
Although Parry "deserved" a prison term, the judge gave her three months to address her issues.
The comments are being investigated by a judicial watchdog.

Prosecutor Tim Sapwell said Parry caught a van's rear bumper, a Vauxhall Insignia's wing mirror, then the side of a BMW "very heavily" in the crash.
He told Warwick Crown Court it caused her Fiat to spin off the A46 near Stratford-upon-Avon into a wooded area where it caught fire.
An off-duty police officer pulled her from the car, and Parry, who was banned from the road at the time, told him she had drunk a bottle of wine and "shouldn't be driving", Mr Sapwell said.
She was arrested, and registered a reading of almost three times the legal limit at a police station.

Lucy Tapper, defending, said Parry had a "considerable drink problem" after a 15-year abusive relationship, but had begun to tackle her alcohol intake.
The judge said: "If Miss Parry was a man, there is no question it would have been straight down the stairs, because this is a shocking case of dangerous driving against a background of two previous convictions for excess alcohol."
But, she said, the offence had been committed in May 2018, and Parry, who had admitted dangerous driving, had not been in trouble since.
"She has clearly got an alcohol problem. She is, whether she admits it or not, an alcoholic," the judge sai

Deferring sentencing for three months, judge Buckingham told Parry she "richly deserved" an immediate custodial term of 18 months.
"I want to see whether you can really address the issues rather than paying lip service," she said.
She ordered Parry to abstain from alcohol, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and pay for private counselling.
If Parry complied, she said, the custody would not be made immediate.
"If you don't comply, I will conclude that you are not worthy of the chance," the judge added.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office confirmed it received a complaint about the remarks attributed to the judge.

Serial drink-driver avoids jail 'for being a woman'

A judge tells Victoria Parry she would have been sent straight to prison if she were a man.

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[Recoil]

As you can see, modern feminism is about equality. Women are equal to men, but because men are aggressive oppressors, women are now more equal than men. A man wouldn't have been given a chance to get private counselling, he would've been thrown to the dogs right away.

Also, I believe proper terminology is not 'women', but 'wahmen'.

Traditional feminism was (IMO deliberately misused to become) the wedge for intersectionality, which is the wedge for the dissipation of the family, which is the wedge for the weakening of the nation, which will be the wedge for Revolution.

Marxists are on the outside of this equation, riding it to an opportune moment. Along the way we get shit like this and Smollet. It's symptomatic of the larger trajectory.

 

[Wendy Carter]

Traditional feminism was (IMO deliberately misused to become) the wedge for intersectionality, which is the wedge for the dissipation of the family, which is the wedge for the weakening of the nation, which will be the wedge for Revolution.

Marxists are on the outside of this equation, riding it to an opportune moment. Along the way we get shit like this and Smollet. It's symptomatic of the larger trajectory.

Back in the 20th century the whole suffragete movement was well-intentioned. Women back then were actually oppressed and their opinions were mostly disregarded. Them being very bold and outspoken about equality was rather justified, since they would have never been taken seriously otherwise. But after men and women became equal, some women kept pointing at gradually more pointless issues and saying "this is why women need more protection", making everyone on their side look horrible. Now we have this whole 'listen and believe' schtick that only applies to women. Minorities probably had it even worse, but now it's basically the same thing.

I'm not too well-versed in history, so take it with a grain of salt, and I won't be derailing this thread further.

 

[Slimy Time]

What a complete fuck up of a summing up. Crown court as well, so it's not one of these glorified jurors in the Magistrates court. How do you, as a judge, manage to a) say that she is deserving of custody, b) say that if she is a man that this would be imprisonment for the crimes she committed and c) neither put her in custody of give a suspended sentence (any violation/crime of any kind = automatic imprisonment + other orders, such as alcohol rehab, curfew, ect.) but instead defer the sentence for three months because we want to see "if she's serious"? Good that someone put an official complaint to the JCIO. What a shock...the Judge is a woman too...Amazing. I've spent some time around UK legal services, this feminist crap is undoubtably influencing them.

 

[MelodyNelson]

Google 'the Corston Report'.

Naturally it was given sympathetic articles in the Guardian. I don't see how you can tell a child it's okay to be sensitive while raising him for a world in which you support him being treated as a brute, but that's the Guardian for you.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Wasn't it the UK that introduced, or at least talked about, some reform where women, and only women, wouldn't go to prison if the sentence was less than XX months? Something about how putting women in prison was bad for them or they didn't want to build more prisons for women because it sent the wrong signals...

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

But remember everyone, 77 cents.

 

[pwnest injun]

Talk about an impaired judgement!