Why Grey got three years

Judge explains manslaughter sentence on pedestrian who killed cyclist

Last week, Auriol Grey, a pedestrian, was sentenced to three years in prison for the manslaughter of Celia Ward, a cyclist who fell into the path of a car. The case has attracted a great deal of comment.

Judge Enright, who presided over the trial at Peterborough Crown Court, forward his sentencing notes to the judicial press office and, at my request, th…