Yesterday was a really emotional day. I went to court to witness the revision of last year’s trial (short summary: a drunken driver hit and killed my mate Sascha Himmelsbach on December 9th 2002 – he was on his way to uni that day and couldn’t do anything about the accident…the accident assessor calculated that there were 0.7 seconds of possible reaction time from the time that the drunken bastard started to skid until he hit the car of my mate :( )…he was sentenced to 22months in jail in the last trial, which took place in May 2004, but he appealed, so yesterday the revision took place.
After hours and hours of story telling and lying (or at least stretching the truth) he was once again sentenced…this time to 16months in jail. I guess it’s impossible to make up for killing someone, but 16months and some insurance money doesn’t sound right to me – but what can you do, you gotta take what you get.
I really hope that this is the end of this (once again he could appeal because it was a new trial)…as it’s hard to see the guy walking around free for over 2 years now although he’s been sentenced once and now a second time.
Sascha Himmelsbach, 18.08.1978-09.12.2002
Gone, but never forgotten!
Well punishments, jail terms are just an outward form of deterence shown to the public to prevent them from folowing his footsteps. What is more heart crippling than that is the guilt that will always e present in his heart. Unless his conscience is already seared like hot iron on skin, he will have to live with the fact that he can never shake off. He will have to repent to get rid of it. And a repented man surely deserves forgiveness. =)
So Daniel, take care of your emotions. Don’t allow the matter to grip your heart so tightly. *paT pAt*
~byzant|n3