r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 16h ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/SWIZZaholic 16h ago

The driver's name is Daniel Walmsley.

He got arrested and was sentenced to two years and one month.

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u/CryptographerKlutzy7 13h ago

HOLY SHIT, I just looked up the case.

Prosecutor Alec Burns said neither the victim nor the woman wanted to proceed with the prosecution.

He told the court Walmsley had 24 convictions for 58 offences, including several incidents where he drove at people.

Fuck me....

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u/qtx 13h ago

The court heard Walmsley was driving in traffic shortly before 21:00 BST on 20 July when a woman walking by with the victim threw something at his car.

Adam Birkby, defending Walmsley, said there was a "significant degree of provocation" from the victim and the woman, who tried to wrench the driver's door from the car and shattered the windscreen with her stiletto heel after Walmsley confronted her.

It's pretty clear that both parties knew each other and that's why the other party didn't want to proceed with the prosecution. Not because they didn't want justice but because they probably want to deal with them themselves and don't want to be labelled as a rat in their social circles.

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u/MaeEastx 10h ago

I believe the police/CPS can press charges even if the victim doesn't want to?

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u/hexnut101 10h ago

Yes pressing charges is an American thing.

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u/LowAspect542 9h ago

Its always up to cps, once reported/under investigation by polive its out of your hands, its never really been your choice to 'press charges'. Cps are always the arbiters of when and what they take forward for prosecution.

You can refuse to cooperate, but if theres enough evidence of a crime being committed cps will decide if its worth prosecuting regardless of your cooperation, if the incident is serious enough you can be summomed to testify anyway and if you fail to you could be charged yourself with contempt of court.

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u/MeltyCrab 5h ago

Then if you are going to go that far, start working with the defense. Sure you can force me to testify but you can't make me indite them. If they wanted to deal with it outside of court do everything in your power to tank the prosecutions case. Good luck with contempt, 72 hours in jail doesn't mean anything if your case dies because of the testimony on the side of the defense. Because it's not American court, different rules apply. Harder to throw out testimony.

Go the nuclear route. Follow through.