Cycling: Bridgend family 'got no justice' for son's crash death

The father of a cyclist killed by a driver who failed to brake or swerve before the fatal crash said the decision to spare him jail was a farce.

Tony Jones said his family's lives were torn apart when his son David, 41, was killed in Bridgend in May 2020.

Raymond Treharne, 74, was given a nine-month suspended sentence and a seven-year driving ban for causing his death by careless driving last month.

The Ministry of Justice said independent judges decided sentences.

"We know the devastation wreaked by those who cause death on our roads, which is why we have increased the maximum penalty for the worst offences to life behind bars," a spokesman added.

Charity Cycling UK said Treharne should have been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving rather than careless driving and called it symptomatic of the UK's "broken road traffic laws".

The court was told if Treharne had been paying attention, he would have seen the father-of-two on his bike for at least seven seconds before hitting him.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing," said David's father Tony.

"Seven seconds is a long time when you think about it. It's long enough to react and obviously he didn't."

Speaking in his living room in Pencoed, Bridgend county, Tony said the first he knew something was wrong was when he called his son and a police officer answered.

"He said Davey had been in an accident.

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