Repeat Offenders
If I understand the following report from Sky News correctly, Ashley Lindo served just 18 months of a 3-year prison sentence after killing an eight-year-old child while driving a stolen car.
Not only that, he is a serial offender with a string of 22 offences under his belt including another dangerous driving conviction three years after he had killed the the little boy, but that didn't stop his defence lawyer from explaining Lindo's behaviour away as 'panic' and arguing that his client had turned over a new leaf since becoming a father just six weeks ago.
Now all of that seems quite unbelievable to me given the background of this young man and unless I'm missing something, he will be back out the streets again in 9 months time to so to resume his criminal career.
Killer Joyrider Lindo Jailed Again After Chase
The 24-year-old raced at up to 40mph on a path behind a school as he fled police and kept going even after blowing out his tyres.
Ashley Lindo, pictured in 2006
A man who ran over and killed an eight-year-old boy in 2006 is back behind bars after racing through a residential area in a police chase.
Ashley Lindo reached up to 60mph as he drove along paths, blew out two tyres and pulled a handbrake turn.
The 24-year-old was jailed for 18 months at Teesside Crown Court after admitting dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
The court heard how Lindo pretended to stop for police in Middlesbrough but then sped off when an officer got out to speak to him.
The pursuit took place at 6.30pm on April 12 this year.
Prosecutor Sue Jacobs said he drove the Skoda Octavia up kerbs and between bollards and on a footpath behind a school.
When police blocked his path he mounted a kerb and blew out two tyres.
He was finally forced to ditch the car after they went completely flat, about a mile after the chase began. He ran off but was arrested soon after.
Lindo served half of a three-year sentence in a young offenders' institution after he knocked down Daniel Conroy Curtin in a stolen Rover Metro in May 2006.
The prosecution in the latest case said: "It is clearly aggravated by his previous convictions, the time of day and the locations, as it involved residential streets in central Middlesbrough."
The court also heard that Lindo had 11 convictions for 22 offences, including another dangerous driving offence three years after he killed the little boy.
Lindo's defence lawyer, Gary Wood, said his client had "panicked" and added that his outlook on life had changed "dramatically" since becoming a father six weeks ago.
