Is 32 Years in Gaol too Long?

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Hunter Valley wedding bus driver Brett Button, who described feeling ashamed for committing the “ultimate sin” when he crashed his vehicle, killing 10 people and injured 25, has been jailed for 32 years.

Newcastle District Court Judge Roy Ellis said on Wednesday that Button, 59, had been clearly impaired by the opioid Tamerol when driving too fast and engaging in risk-taking behaviour before the horrific crash in June 2023 at Greta

Is 32 years in gaol an excessive sentence? 24 years non parole period. I must admit it sounds excessive to me
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He knew or should have known that to drive while taking Tramadol is inadvisable, but to drive a public service vehicle while taking Tramadol is IMO unforgivable.
I took Tramadol following an op to my left arm and the warnings were both on the box label AND in the patient info leaflet inside the box, so he cannot say he didn’t know what he did was unforgivably wrong. What about asking the next of kin to those 10 who were killed by his irresponsible actions, what was the right term to be locked away.

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Justice is blindfolded for a reason

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Not too long no. But if it was England he would be out after 10yrs for good behaviour. Either that or because our prisons are over populated.

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I agree. I’m a commercial drive myself. A few basic rule. If you are tired, stop. Better to be late then kill someone. Your a professional driver, conduct yourself as one. If you have to put chains on, stop. The load is not worth your life or some else’s.
When in dought, don’t do it. And last but not least. That little four wheeler, that is driving like an idiot, probably is not thinking, get away from them.

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One thing’s for sure, he’ll come out into a totally different world from what it was like when he went in.

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Assuming he gets out at the earliest parole date he’ll be 83 on release! A very different world all ways up !

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All the busses will be driverless by then Rox, but they still won’t be on time… :009:

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Aye, More than likely. :grin:

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I’d like to see a driverless bus negotiate its way around Chichester City’s daily grid-locked snarl-up. Now that would be fun :grin:

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Or on the tiny single track roads with passing places few n far between that we have up here.

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I bet you get a lot of motorhomes doing the 300 Rox.
I watch a lot of ‘The Chase’ and when Brad asks them what they would do with the money if they won, and most of them say they would buy a camper van and tour Scotland…

Campervan

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