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Six years for hit-run death driver
Saturday 21st November 2009, 11:31AM GMT.
A hit-and-run driver who ploughed into a pensioner and left him for dead has been jailed for six years.
Carl Campbell knocked down Tipton great-grandfather Clarence Elwin last June then tried to cover his tracks by claiming his car had been stolen.
Judge John Warner said he considered the bogus story a “considerable aggravating factor” in his sentencing at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday.
The 26-year-old, of Second Avenue, Low Hill, Wolverhampton, had already pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Elwin, known to friends and family as Joe, was knocked down in Gospel Oak Road, Tipton, neerhis home while walking his dog in June last year. His beloved Yorkshire terrier Zach was killed instantly and the 92-year-old former railman died almost five months later, having battled multiple injuries.
His family said he had been in perfect health before the collision.
Mr Elwin left behind two devastated children, Pauline, aged 68, and Trevor, 59, grandchildren Gary, Julie, Debbie, Claire and Craig and great grandchildren, Daniel, Jack, Harry, Billy, Madison and Amelia.
James Dunstan, prosecuting, said witnesses had seen Campbell driving at speeds of around 50mph before and after the collision and he had been overtaking other vehicles at speed.
Due to his speed Campbell, who had previous convictions for driving related offences including drink driving and driving whilst disqualified, “had no time to avoid the accident”.
The car was found the next day near Brewood with damage to the door lock and the ignition cabling was exposed.
Mr Dunstan said: “He called police the next day to say he had returned from Liverpool to see his car had been stolen. He then went on to make a false statement.”
Gurdeep Garcha, defending, said Campbell wished to offer his “sincere apologies” and condolences.
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What a sham the law is in this country six years he will be out in two and a half.When he gave his one finger jesture shows what respect he has for this so called law ..LOCK HIM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY..people like him shouldn’t be walking the streets.My thoughts go out to the old chap he killed and his family
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only 6 years . another joke.
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“Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime”, I don’t think so. Still a year longer than I expected, but about twenty years short of what was required.
“Joe” with his caring, thoughtful but always jovial outlook, is still sadly missed by his neighbours and friends.
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Unfortunately you see this kind of behaviour a lot in Tipton and similar towns equally infested with Chav culture. You often hear the speeders long before you see them, due to the exhaust systems they buy to make them feel big. They are pathetic, childish, weak..and as you see demonstrated in this case, a danger to the public. This [insert appropriate word], leaves a family devastated..and he gets just 6 years for it.
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Comment is really rather superfluous. This story is a parable of modern Britain – period.
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Just another piece of sub-human detritus who should be ‘put down’, an act of mercy for a tormented mind.
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My heart goes out to Pauline,Trevor,Gary,Julie, Debbie,Claire and Craig Daniel,Jack,Harry,Billy, Madison and Amelia,so sorry and only 6 years,I’m ashamed to be British.God bless x
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Yet another product of the broken Britain that New Labour have engineered over the last 12 years.
No doubt this is another Labour education failure, a social system failure, a policing failure, a criminal justice failure.
What a disgrace we’ve let our society become. I guess we got the government we deserved.
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Thanks for all your comments joe was my Grandad,the best garandad anyone could ask for. He was a loving,Caring and kind man. who would help anyone. Six years is a insult. IT SHOULD OF BEEN LIFE FOR A LIFE.
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I have a very simple soloution to this….After seeing this things picture in the E&S and the cotempt he showed by giving the V sign,can*t he just be “got rid of”,,,,,Bring back the rope…
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Practice your unfounded political rants elsewhere. This is NOT the place.
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Well a common motto is “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime”. That I think, together with a policy of closing police stations off to the public when they are needed most, gives me reason to say I think these rants are warranted. I’m grateful this paper still seems to care about free speach, Chris.
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No politics here. But the whole of the European Union has become a soft touch since the dogooders got the upper hand (cf last week’s debate in France over spanking kids).
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DAVID- Dont know how long you have been alive or even lived in this country, but this has been going on for decades. It’s not a product of Labour or any party. It’s a product of crappy parenting and laws that don’t do enough to deter these thugs. It’s a product of a soft society governed by doo-gooders and the stupid Human rights movement in the EU.
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This is for Claire on comment 9-It’s getting a bit political on here (can understand why) but condolences to you for your Grandad being taken away-it’s not right and I can understand why you feel insulted at the sentence.Thinking of you and your family x
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This is for chris,Joe was my grandad and as a family we are all missing him very much,we can rant as much as we like.what has it got to do with you.why dont you take your views else where.
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