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The Bicycling Bard is back and raising funds for CDF

Submitted by CDF Co-ordinator on 8 May 2015 - 2:21pm

Talented virtuoso guitarist – and CTC member – Richard Durrant is following up last year’s successful tour of England using a bicycle and trailer with another trip this summer that will take him from Sussex to the Isle of Skye.

Vigil and die in for designer killed by lorry in London

Submitted by CDF Co-ordinator on 14 April 2015 - 1:04pm

55-year-old Moira Gemmill, was killed in collision with a lorry when cycling in London on 9th April 2015.

Moira was a designer and major figure in the London arts world and was hand-picked by the Queen to oversee renovations at Windsor Castle. She is thought to have been cycling to work at St James’s Palace when the incident happened.

The 40-year-old driver of the lorry, from Potters Bar-based engineering firm JSM, was questioned but not arrested.

An incomprehensible travesty of justice

Submitted by CDF Co-ordinator on 27 March 2015 - 4:52pm

Last week, an incomprehensible travesty of justice occurred in Kent: a driver who had sent and received 40 text messages whilst at the wheel and who then hit an 18-year-old cyclist on a straight stretch of road in broad day light was cleared by a jury of causing the cyclist’s death.

At Canterbury Crown Court on 20th March, 36-year-old Philip Sinden was cleared of causing the death of 18-year-old Daniel Squire on the A258 Dover Road on 7th September 2013.

Police add insult to injury in Mason case

Submitted by CDF Co-ordinator on 27 March 2015 - 3:31pm

In a shocking display of insensitivity the Metropolitan Police announced to the media on 18th March that they would not refer the case of Michael Mason to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). This followed an announcement made only six days before, shortly before a vigil marking a year since Michael’s death, that the Met would refer the case to the CPS. This u-turn was broadly welcomed by the Cyclists Defence Fund (CDF), Michael’s family and other campaigners for justice.

Police U-turn on prosecution in Michael Mason case

Submitted by CDF Co-ordinator on 13 March 2015 - 2:25pm

With support from the Cyclists’ Defence Fund, the family of 70-year-old Michael Mason who was hit from behind by a driver on Regent Street on 25 February 2014, have been fighting for answers as to why the police did not inform the CPS of the case. Michael died on 14 March, 19 days after the incident.

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