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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Leon Watson
Last updated at 8:25 PM on 2nd February 2012
A driver who killed a Good Samaritan who thought he was trying to leave the scene of an accident was jailed today for seven years.
Steven Black, 27, had been involved in a minor crash with a motorbike when Michael Ritson – on a day out with his wife Tracey and their two youngest children – pulled over to help.
The sound engineer, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, stood in front of Black’s Ford Focus when he heard him start his engine.
Michael Ritson (left) a Good Samaritan who was killed by driver Steven Black, who had crashed his car
Black drove into the father-of-three, 33, and he died when he fell from the car roof. His wife and children Rio, 10, and Scarlett, three, were in his car yards away.
Newcastle Crown Court heard his widow felt ‘overwhelming grief’ that ‘consumed her every waking moment’ since the tragedy last March.
Judge John Milford told Black: ‘This was a case where there was flagrant disregard for the rules of the road and flagrant disregard for the danger being caused to others.
‘You drove your car deliberately at a man who you knew was intent on preventing you from moving.
‘Serious injury was inevitable though you did not intend the same. Had you done so you would have been prosecuted for murder. No sentence other than a prison sentence can be justified.’
Black, of Kenton, Newcastle,
was initially charged with manslaughter, which carries a maximum
sentence of life imprisonment.
Mr Ritson’s widow Tracey leaving Newcastle Quayside Crown Court after seeing her husband’s killer Steven Black sentenced
But prosecutors accepted his guilty plea to the lesser charge of causing death by dangerous driving, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
Mr Ritson’s widow Tracey asked the judge to impose the highest sentence possible for the killing of her ‘husband and best friend’.
Reading a victim impact statement to the court, she said her youngest, Scarlett, missed her Daddy.
She said: ‘She does not like it when it is light, she prefers the dark. She likes to look at the dark night sky and see her daddy’s face in stars.
‘She draws rainbows all the time because that is where her Daddy sits.’
The court heard Black had not intended to leave the scene of the accident, but acted ‘in shock’ when Mr Ritson approached his car.
He turned on his engine only to activate his hands free telephone to call emergency services, Jamie Hill QC, mitigating, said.
His six-year-old daughter was sitting next to him in the car’s front passenger seat during the accident on the A194 Felling by-pass, Gateshead.
In a recording of the 999 call played to the court, Black was heard to tell the operator: ‘I have got some idiot trying to get in, he has jumped on my car.’
Mr Hill said the collision was the result of a ‘tragic misinterpretation’ of each other’s intentions.
He said: ‘This is a classic case of two people who clearly misunderstood what the other was about.’
He said Black was sorry and was ‘weighed down by the enormity of what he caused by his actions that day’.
Black, who spoke only to answer his name, was impassive as he was led from the dock. He was banned from driving for five years.
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Yet another example of Judges keeping criminal lawyers gainfully employed my issuing minimum sentences.
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Surely, if you deliberately drive a car at someone it is manslaughter? Men in suits seem to have rules to themselves. Making lawyers look good is not really justice!
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I hope the ban starts after his excessively short sentence…
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Plea bargaining always favours the aggressor never the victim as it is in this case, today we read that an exceptional mans life is now only worth three and a half years in prison, pathetic isnt it?
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– Norman Speight, London UK, 03/2/2012 11:28 – Might I suggest that you pick your forum a bit better next time. This is an article about a family who are now missing a key member. Full of emotion and not really the right place to be moaning about cyclists. You could, at the very least have offered condoleces to Michael’s family. RIP Michael and my every sympathy to your family and friends xxx
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Norman Speight, London UK, . Been on a motorway recently? All those manoevres you mention cyclists using are exactly what lorry drivers get up to there. But at 60mph. Their driving is a disgrace, dangerous and without any regard for anyone else. Thankfully the police are getting to grips with them now.
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He’ll walk in 3.5 years after having deliberately killed someone.
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Carries a maximum sentence of 14 years and he gets 7 – good thinking judgie !!
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If I took a one ton wrecking ball and swung it at someone, I’d sure as hell expect that it would kill them. What’s the difference in using a car instead?
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7 years is a slap on the wrist compared to the child loss of a farther to such a callous act. You do not need to start a car and put it in gear to use the built in hands free so this was just a blatant lie to excuse his willingness to run someone over to. He should have got life behind bars.
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