Buzzin Disgrace

Antonio Singh Boparan, at 19-years-of-age, drove his mother’s Range Rover at 70mph on a 30mph road, having only passed his test six months before, and was described as weaving in and out of traffic as he overtook one vehicle and went to overtake another when he crashed into a car carrying an eleven month old baby.

He collided head-on with the families jeep, in an impact that was so strong it ripped Cerys out of her baby seat and her skull was detached from her spine.

Singh, the heir to a £130 million fortune, had allegedly told paramedics that the baby was on her father’s lap at the time of the accident and not in her car seat. Mr Edwards said “I was investigated for a week by the police, until they realised it was all complete lies. Singh has put us through absolute hell.”

Singh’s parents, pledged £1 million to release him on bail until he was sentenced and they were featured at number 49 in the Sunday Times Rich List.

Little Cerys Edwards, was left brain-damaged, paralysed, reliant on a ventilator and needs 24-hour care. The driver received only 21 months in prison which it has now be revealed could be dramatically reduced to just 30-weeks to ease over-crowding in prisons.

Mr Edwards suffered suffered a broken nose and rib, and his wife, who was driving at the time, suffered a broken ankle, in the crash which happened just a mile from their home.

After the sentencing, Cerys’s parents, Gareth and Tracy said “We feel strongly that the maximum two-year sentence should have been imposed. Even this would be inadequate considering what has happened to our daughter. Cerys could not survive without her ventilator, so in our opinion he should have been facing up to 14 years, the same penalty as causing death by dangerous driving” said Mr Edwards, who is 43-years-old.

Cerys Mother, Tracy, is staying at a specialist care centre with her daughter more than 100 miles away from their home, and said “He has taken away our daughter. It is heart-breaking. She had her whole life left.”

The Judge, Frank Chapman said he “utterly ruined” the lives of Cerys and her family but added that the maximum sentence he could give was two years for dangerous driving. However, the judge reduced the sentence to 21 months because Boparan was of “previous good character” and had not stolen the vehicle he was driving at the time of the crash, in November 2006. He was also given a driving ban for five years.

Unless the insurers of Boparan agree to pay for a house adaption for Cerys, the mother and daughter will have to remain at the rehabilitation centre in Surrey.

Unbelievable, it has already come to light, that his father is a multi-millionaire, you’d think he would have had the decency to have already paid for the home adaption. This child will never have a normal life and so I agree, he should have been tried for manslaughter the day he took her future away from her.

As for the “previous good nature”, hadn’t he already lied by making out the child was not in a car seat, and torturing this family further, how can he live with himself,  there should have been an extra sentence for that at least!  Everyone knows about the prison over-crowding problems but many of the people in them should have been given a death sentence not a pathetic jail term so that they can come out and do it all over again!

Not only has he taken this child’s normal life away from her, but he has also given a life sentence to her parents. Everyday they have to care for their child who is totally dependant of them for the rest of her life, whereas in a few short months his life can return to normal, where is the justice in that!

If Mr & Mrs Singh feel the sorrow that they say they feel, then let’s hope they do the honorable thing and help this poor family out, by paying for the adaption their house needs so Carys can at least go home and be with them, after all it was your son that caused it!