{"id":89092,"date":"2018-02-16T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=183b32fd28fd22546b8cdd6c1737ab6f"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:59:38","slug":"press-release-dangerous-driver-who-caused-fatal-crash-but-didnt-stop-at-the-scene-has-his-sentence-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89092","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Dangerous driver who caused fatal crash but didn\u2019t stop at the scene has his sentence increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A dangerous driver who caused the death of a man in Tooting by careless driving has had his sentence increased after the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, appealed it as too low.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Howell hit Adinajib Awale on the junction of Tooting Bec Road and Dr Johnson Avenue on 2 May 2015. Despite his car suffering damage because of the collision, Mr Howell did not stop at the scene. Instead, after returning home, Howell called the police for a crime reference number for insurance purposes. He said that the damage had been caused by someone throwing something at his car.<\/p>\n<p>Howell was originally sentenced to 10 months\u2019 imprisonment suspended for 2 years at Kingston Crown Court. Today, following action from the Solicitor General, the Court of Appeal increased Howell\u2019s sentence to 16 months, to be served immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Solicitor General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthony Howell\u2019s actions are inexcusable; to cause a fatal collision because of careless driving is atrocious and to fail stop at the scene to help the victim was disgraceful. No sentence can bring back Mr Awale but I hope that the increase will bring his family some comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Howell, who caused the death of Adinajib Awale, has his sentence increased and is ordered to serve it immediately following the action of Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}