REGARDING your report 'Four months not enough for a life' (LET, December 15), I am sure many of your readers, like myself, were appalled at the lenient sentence imposed on a Kurdish Iraqi asylum seeker who fled the scene leaving a young girl trapped under his car. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment -- the maximum for this type of offence being six months.
This sentence is derisory as he was also a disqualified driver and was on police bail for other driving offences.
He will serve eight weeks.
I could not believe that four months had been given 'because of Ibrahim's plea of guilty.' So many serious charges and he was shown such leniency.
The law is an ass.
I hope that when Ibrahim is released from prison he is returned to his home country irrespective of whether or not there is a volatile situation there.
DOUG MOSS, Whalley Old Road, Blackburn.
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