Uncle Leo
This cook is an anti-semite
Barry Meyer. what a ****.
A lorry driver who crushed a cyclist to death faces a jail sentence after it emerged that he was uninsured and unlicensed, had jumped a red light and had been disqualified from driving five times.
The court heard of Barry Meyer’s “cavalier lack of respect” for the law on the day that a 55-year-old woman was killed by a lorry as she cycled through Westminster. She was the fifth person to die under the wheels of an HGV while cycling in the capital this year.
Alan Neve, 51, a married father of one who worked at the Performing Rights Society, sustained “massive head injuries” when a lorry driven by Meyer, 53, went “straight over” him, dragging him along the road in front of horrified onlookers in Holborn, central London, in July 2013.
Meyer had denied his guilt for two years, but admitted causing death by careless driving minutes before his trial was due to start at Blackfriars crown court.
On the day that Mr Neve died, Meyer’s view was blocked by objects on his dashboard including a tub of sugar, a toilet roll and a mobile phone holder. Footage from closed-circuit television cameras also showed that he had gone through a red light and stopped in a yellow box, before running over Mr Neve.
Allison Hunter, for the prosecution, said that Meyer had shown a “cavalier lack of respect for driving law and regulations”.
Meyer was convicted of drink-driving twice, once in 1997 and once in 2007, leading to bans for 18 months and three years respectively. He has convictions for driving a lorry with a dangerous load and for driving while disqualified twice, on one occasion giving police a false name. He also has convictions for assault and criminal damage. He will be sentenced for the latest offence on May 14.
The details of his past emerged within hours of a 55-year-old woman being pronounced dead after a collision with a lorry at the junction of Millbank, central London, and Lambeth Bridge.
A lorry driver who crushed a cyclist to death faces a jail sentence after it emerged that he was uninsured and unlicensed, had jumped a red light and had been disqualified from driving five times.
The court heard of Barry Meyer’s “cavalier lack of respect” for the law on the day that a 55-year-old woman was killed by a lorry as she cycled through Westminster. She was the fifth person to die under the wheels of an HGV while cycling in the capital this year.
Alan Neve, 51, a married father of one who worked at the Performing Rights Society, sustained “massive head injuries” when a lorry driven by Meyer, 53, went “straight over” him, dragging him along the road in front of horrified onlookers in Holborn, central London, in July 2013.
Meyer had denied his guilt for two years, but admitted causing death by careless driving minutes before his trial was due to start at Blackfriars crown court.
On the day that Mr Neve died, Meyer’s view was blocked by objects on his dashboard including a tub of sugar, a toilet roll and a mobile phone holder. Footage from closed-circuit television cameras also showed that he had gone through a red light and stopped in a yellow box, before running over Mr Neve.
Allison Hunter, for the prosecution, said that Meyer had shown a “cavalier lack of respect for driving law and regulations”.
Meyer was convicted of drink-driving twice, once in 1997 and once in 2007, leading to bans for 18 months and three years respectively. He has convictions for driving a lorry with a dangerous load and for driving while disqualified twice, on one occasion giving police a false name. He also has convictions for assault and criminal damage. He will be sentenced for the latest offence on May 14.
The details of his past emerged within hours of a 55-year-old woman being pronounced dead after a collision with a lorry at the junction of Millbank, central London, and Lambeth Bridge.
