May Bike Rally supporting Di Gilchrist and her family
Here is the background.......
Lawyer fined for fatal bike hit-run
From the Advertiser - 28th April 2005
A prominent lawyer who killed a cyclist in a hit and run and failed to stop has been fined $3100 and disqualified from driving for 12 months. Eugene McGee, a former police officer, sat expressionless as his sentence was delivered by Chief Judge Terry Worthington in South Australia's District Court. McGee, 50, was driving a four-wheel drive vehicle when it was involved in a fatal collision with father-of-two Ian Humphrey in South Australia's Barossa Valley in November 2003.
McGee, a lawyer who has acted in high profile criminal cases including the Snowtown bodies-in-barrels trials, did not stop at the scene and was arrested by police some six-and-a-half hours after the collision.
The lawyer was earlier this month acquitted of dangerous driving but found guilty of the lesser crime of driving without due care. McGee had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to render assistance.
Judge Worthington today gave McGee a $2300 fine for the failing to stop and render assistance charges, and an $800 fine for driving without due care. McGee's driving licence was suspended for 12 months on each charge, but Judge Worthington said the licence disqualifications would be served concurrently.
Earlier today, the widow of the dead cyclist confronted McGee in court, saying she did not hate the lawyer but pitied him.
McGee told his trial he had been drinking wine (one and a half bottles) at a lunch hours before the collision, but did not consider himself affected by alcohol.
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Here are some photographs I took at the Adelaide Rally, over 3,000 bike riders showed up to support the family and demand changes to our system that allows this sort of thing to happen.....
Ian Humphrey's brother speaking to the rally in front of Parliament House
Some of the supporters.....
Some more of the supporters.....
Rallies took place in all major Australian cities
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