Two weeks ago, Angela Dublin was sentenced to 24 months behind bars at Oxford Crown Court for four counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Oxford Crown Court. One of the innocent victims was my son, Marshall.
I have not made public my feelings and those of my family and the effects it has had on our lives since the events on May 28 last year on the Oxford Eastern Bypass when my son was taken away from me at the age of 13.
Now I feel it is time to speak up and ask the question of our judicial system is my boy's life and those of three other innocent victims only worth a sentence more fitting for a shoplifter?
Marshall was a one-off, loved by everyone who met him and although I know every parent would say the same, he was one in a million.
I am only lucky in the respect that I have three other children, Jamie, 18, Ella, three, and another son, Finley. Finley was born in December, a Godsend in the worst year of my life.
My partner and children have kept me going over the past 11 months along with very good friends. With the first anniversary of the incident fast approaching, it seems that every month since the tragedy, another knockback or mountain had to be climbed by me and my family.
Three other families face exactly the same realities. Yet still I don't know or, it seems, does anyone else know what happened that night and why. This is one demon I fear I will never be able to lay to rest.
My daughter Ella wakes at night screaming not even her own mother can sometimes comfort her.
We have been told she will need bereavement counselling, all this at the tender age of three. So not only has Mrs Dublin ruined the lives of those who know the troubles each day might bring, but also those so innocent they don't even know yet what life is.
For all the people who feel Mrs Dublin has suffered enough, I ask them this when they kiss their children goodnight, ask themselves the question again. Would she have suffered enough if it were their child who was thrown 100ft from the boot of a car yes, the boot, not a seat ?
Once the case was sent to crown court, I felt justice would be done.
But now my question is why did a High Court judge issue a sentence which could have been dealt with, with the likes of speeding fines, in a magistrates' court? The sentence is an insult to all the families who lost their loved ones, and the boys' memories. And what signal does the sentence send out to the rest of our society?
The Crown Prosecution Service has appealed against the sentence and I now have to wait again, but hopefully, with your help, not in silence.
As you have covered the story on previous occasions, I ask for your help to ensure that justice will finally be done.
Don't let this tragedy be swept under the carpet, with my boy's memory, and forgotten forever before the guilty party has been dealt with in a proper manner fit for the crime that has been committed.
Dwain Haynes, Oxford
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