Mulholland presses PM for automatic licence suspension for those who cause death by dangerous or careless driving  

By • on February 1, 2012, 5:46 pm

Member of Parliament for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland, has today called on the Prime Minister to change the law so that those charged with death by dangerous or careless driving have their driving licence suspended as a bail condition. Greg has backed a campaign launched by the family of Otley teenager Jamie Still, who tragically lost his life when he was struck by a driver speeding and twice over the legal drink drive limit. The perpetrator, who was convicted and jailed in September 2011 was allowed to continue driving for 8 months after killing Jamie, which caused huge distress to Jamie's family and friends and has been described by Mr Mulholland as "grotesque". He asked the Prime Minister during Prime Minister Questions today, to seriously consider changing the law so that driving licenses are automatically suspended as a condition of bail in when charges of death by...

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