Perhaps you should move to Tower Hamlets. You’d love it there. Lutfur Rahman was elected on a ticket to get rid of LTNs and swept the board, despite being a convicted fraudster!As usual idiot Campbell thinks two wrongs make a right. Nobody is particularly sympathetic to all this pleading, whining and crying about how unfair things are.Didn’t one of your cycling brethren just get sent to jail for stabbing a motorist too? Oh yes!‘ 23 July 2024A "short-tempered" cyclist has been jailed for life with a minimum term of at least 27 years for murdering a BMW driver who knocked over his bike in south-east London.Aspiring songwriter Alexandros Josephs, 29, was stabbed to death by Ahmed Chakile Gonladieu, 25, through his open car window on 10 May 2023.Fatally wounded, the victim drove a short distance down the road and crashed into a line of parked cars, the Old Bailey was told.The attacker ran off and Mr Josephs died at the scene in Ladywell, Lewisham, at 14:38 BST, jurors heard. Gonladieu was found guilty by jurors of murder and having a bladed article on Friday.'No justification'Sentencing Gonladieu, Judge Anuja Dhir KC said: "I cannot be sure be sure you intended to kill Mr Josephs."It has been suggested that there was also an element of provocation in that Mr Josephs' car hit and dragged your bicycle."But that cannot excuse or justify what you did next."She noted the defendant's immaturity and history of offending, with 17 previous convictions for 32 crimes.They included 11 convictions for violence and possession of weapons, including causing grievous bodily harm to a prison inmate.Judge Dhir KC told the defendant: "Your offending pattern suggests, and your actions on the day of this suggests, that you are a young man who has a short temper and, when you lose your temper, you act violently."In a victim impact statement, Mr Josephs' mother, Lana Joannou, said: "The loss has no comparison. I will never get over what has happened."She condemned the defendant for his lack of remorse, saying: "I will never be able to forgive this person for what they have done. All I ask is for justice."
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