In the Supreme Court yesterday morning, a local man was sentenced to four years imprisonment and banned from driving for six years.

Julian ELLUL, 27, of Calpe Road, was found guilty of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving following a road traffic collision that resulted in the tragic death of a local man.

At about 4pm on 5 April 2021, ELLUL was driving his Mercedes car north along Queensway when he crossed the southbound lane in order to enter the Petroil petrol station. 

As he did so, he collided with a motorcycle being ridden in a southerly direction by a 55-year-old local man. 

The casualty and his partner, who was a pillion passenger on the motorcycle, were taken by ambulance to St Bernard’s Hospital but, sadly, the man passed away in the early hours of 7 April 2021.

In court, reference was made to ELLUL’s 36 previous driving convictions, five of which were for Careless or Dangerous Driving.  

The judge said that the events of 5 April 2021 were ‘not merely historic offences committed when the defendant was younger’, rather it was a ‘behaviour pattern’. 

He also added that ELLUL had an attitude to driving such that, it was probably only a matter of time before someone ‘suffered serious injuries or, as in this case, died.’