A hero mother who pushed her baby’s pram to safety in the split second before she was mown down by a speeding car, causing life-changing injuries, vowed that she would have done exactly the same again to save her children.
Becky Sharp was saluted for her bravery and fast thinking as a judge jailed a maniac drunk driver who left her for dead and would have hit her baby too if she hadn’t acted so decisively.
While her 11-month-old daughter Lorena miraculously evaded injury, Becky was left with severe brain injuries and numerous fractures after being tossed ‘like a rag doll’ through the air.
The 31-year-old now faces years of rehabilitation as she heals from the accident in April after being run over by scaffolder Dale Clark who had been distracted from his driving by attempting to buy cocaine.
The 38-year-old was jailed for three and a half years at Bournemouth Crown Court after admitting to causing severe injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop at an accident and drunk driving.
Becky was in court to see him sentenced and had hoped he might express some guilt for ‘turning her life upside down’.
However, Dale Clark, who’d been on a vodka binge the night before the accident failed to even look at Becky as she sat in a wheelchair with her husband Dan by her side.
She said that she wanted to go to court because she was angry and she wanted to see him. She said that he didn’t make any eye contact, didn’t express any remorse and said nothing directly to her.
She said that she knew he’d written a letter to the court and that his mother came up to them at the end and said sorry. His grandmother mouthed ‘sorry’ and that was kind, but she was upset that he hadn’t said sorry to her directly.
In an exclusive interview from her hospital room, Becky said she was pleased the judge had praised her as a hero, and she said that it was nice of him to recognise that she pushed her daughter out of the way and that she would do it all over again if it was to save one of her children.
She said that she would do it multiple times if needs be and that she was just grateful that Lorena wasn’t hurt and that her other two children weren’t with her.
What was the judge thinking? Three and a half years. The man could have not only have killed her but her child as well. This is a shocking sentence.
The fact that he cleared off after the accident. He should have got ten years or more.
He probably won’t even do the three and a half years, that will be halved with probation. The justice system is old, antiquated and ridiculous.
She should have also been monetarily compensated, but I don’t suppose this man has any money to talk of. However, any assets that he did have should have been seized, sold and given to her and her family who have also suffered.
This was one courageous mother who would have to go through years of rehabilitation for her injuries. However, this low life who caused them will likely be out of jail in about 18 months’ time and free to carry on with his worthless life. There was never any justice in this sentence at all.
It just goes to show how broken our justice system actually is. It would be more fitting to call it the ‘Injustice System’.
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