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martin14: CBC News has learned Benson has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to 1992, which includes several driving offences.
He is scheduled to go on trial in April for a dangerous driving charge from April 2011.
Richard Benson's criminal record
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified ? sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified ? sentenced to four months in jail.
Charged in 2011 for dangerous driving ? trial set for April 2013.
Several other offences dating back to 1992 including credit card fraud and possession of controlled substances.
Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.
What to say, will this idiocy ever end ?
The driver didn't kill this girl, the system did.
jeff744: "martin14" said
CBC News has learned Benson has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to 1992, which includes several driving offences.
He is scheduled to go on trial in April for a dangerous driving charge from April 2011.
Richard Benson's criminal record
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified ? sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified ? sentenced to four months in jail.
Charged in 2011 for dangerous driving ? trial set for April 2013.
Several other offences dating back to 1992 including credit card fraud and possession of controlled substances.
Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.
What to say, will this idiocy ever end ?
The driver didn't kill this girl, the system did.
Sadly the system likes letting loose repeat offenders until they kill someone while beating the ever living crap out of people that made one bad mistake that didn't hurt anyone.
martin14: "jeff744" said
until they kill someone
I doubt even that will be enough.
He'll start whining about this and that, and 'oh I was smoking dope cuz my head hurts'.
ima victim ima victim ima victim
jeff744: "martin14" said
until they kill someone
I doubt even that will be enough.
He'll start whining about this and that, and 'oh I was smoking dope cuz my head hurts'.
ima victim ima victim ima victim
True, eventually someone close to a person killed by stuff like this will decide to take justice into their own hands since the ones supposed to dish it out never do, hopefully that actually provokes a look at this repeat offender crap.
Brenda: Ralph Benson, brother of the accused, said that Richard suffered from seizures ever since he was badly beaten in Mayerthorpe a decade ago.
The beating left him in a coma. He has a plate in his head and takes medication for seizures.
"Right now he should be inside of a hospital," Ralph Benson said. "Not sitting in a police cell."
Richard can be disoriented when he comes out of a seizure, which could account for his "combative" nature with police after the crash, his brother said.
"I mean he's fighting for his life when he comes out of that seizure," Ralph Benson said. "He's had seizures here with us and it is a very freaky situation … he goes like into a convulsion. His muscles spasm, his muscles cramp up on him."
Benson said that Richard had a seizure as recently as Sunday. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.
There is one thing he should have not being doing the past 10 years and that is legally drive.
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