2010-07-23 - Rider Down/Fatality - Hatch End - Pinner

An update on this sad story; glad to see the cock finally admitted it which means witnesses don't have to go to trial. I hope his family get some peace out of this - the bit at the end of the article about staff at the newsagency raising money to repatriate his body makes me really sad:

http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2011/06/20/motorist-22-admits-hatch-end-paper-boy-dangerous-driving-death-116451-28908248/
** Motorist, 22, admits Hatch End paper boy dangerous driving death **

       Jun 20 2011 By [Ian Proctor](http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/authors/ian-proctor/)      
      A BULGARIAN motorist, pictured left in the sunglasses, who hit and  fatally injured a cycling newspaper deliveryman in Hatch End has been  warned he faces jail.
  Aleksander Preslavski, 22, of Linklea Close, Colindale, admitted at  Harrow Crown Court this morning causing the death of Rajendra  Ramakrishnan by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on July 19 - one  day short of the one-year anniversary of the fatal accident.
  The victim, a married 34-year-old father-of-two from Sri Lanka, was  riding his pushbike westbound along Uxbridge Road at 6.20am on July 20  2010 when Preslavski's silver 54-reg Honda Civic collided with him at  the junction with Cornwell Road, leaving papers strewn in the road.
  Mr Ramakrishnan suffered severe head injuries and a heart attack.  Paramedics tried to resuscitate him before taking him to the Royal  London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London but he died there three days  later of a fracture-dislocation of the spine in the neck. 
  Preslavski, an ex-London Underground cleaner, was arrested and bailed  the day of the accident by officers from the Metropolitan Police's  Alperton-based road death investigation unit, and subsequently charged.
  At today's plea hearing, Judge Graham Arran ordered a pre-sentence  report and warned Preslavski: "Custody seems to me to be inevitable in a  case of this sort.
  Judge Arran granted the Bulgarian bail on condition he wear an  electronic tag to monitor a 10pm to 7am curfew, surrenders his passport  and does not apply for foreign travel documents, continues to pay  surety, and complies with the probation service. Preslavski was  additionally given an interim driving disqualification.
  Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Chris Osbourne said outside  court: I'm glad he's fully owned up to what he's done and has avoided  witnesses having to come to a trial.
  Mr Ramakrishnan delivered newspapers for both Milli News and Harveys  newsagents in Uxbridge Road and had been sharing a room in the flat  above the latter with his 22-year-old flatmate Punnitha Kumarajothi for  less than a month when the accident occurred.
  In the wake of the death, Milli News staff organised fundraising from  customers to pay for the repatriation of their former employee's body to  his homeland.