but you are missing the key fact - the person killed was on a bike so therefore regardless of facts was evil and deserved what they got.
Is there really no case for the guilty woman to get a lighter sentence?
She got irritated by a cyclist on the pavement, threw her arms up, ranted. You know…like hundreds of people do every year…except this time there were incredibly sad consequences that she would never have foreseen.
She’s 46, never been in trouble before, has had a tough life…and is unlikely ever to damage society again if not sent to jail. There was surely some sort of case for requiring her to do some useful work for society…litter picking, charity shop, whatever.
In addition the judge seemed to pull his absolute conviction that it was a shared use path out of thin air…neither the police evidence or council evidence established that.
I wouldn’t really be surprised if case went to appeal, would you?