News about Matthew Briggs

Last week, a report from the MailOnline found that cyclists are breaking the speed limit by more than 40 per cent while passing the very spot in Regent's Park where 81-year-old Hilda Griffiths was knocked down and killed by a rider in June 2022. Mrs Griffiths died 56 days after she was struck by a racing bike ridden by Brian Fitzgerald, who was not prosecuted after police admitted pedal cyclists are not bound by speed limits as they are not subject to the Road Traffic Act. Now, Tory MP Sir Iain (pictured with bike crash victim Paola dos Santos, left) is proposing amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill which would see cyclists obey the same rules of the roads as cars and other vehicles. 'There's a reason for having a speed limit, this argument that it is anti cycling, it is not, it's pro safety,' he told LBC.

Cyclists yesterday reached speeds of 33mph in a 20mph zone where a member of Muswell Hill Peloton club killed 81-year-old Hilda Griffiths in Regent's Park in June 2022. MailOnline recorded groups of riders, packed in tight groups racing around the John Nash designed park - lapping the 2.73mile circuit in a little over six minutes. The quickest riders had an average speed over the entire distance of 27 miles per hour. Someone sticking to the 20mph speed limit would take eight minutes and 12 seconds to complete the circuit.

Hilda Griffiths, 81, had been run over. Not by a boy-racer in a sports car or a delivery driver on a moped, but by a City banker hurtling along at 29mph - in a 20mph zone - on his high-performance racing bike in June 2022. Fifty-nine days later, Hilda died in hospital from her injuries. And last week, almost two years on, the man responsible for her death, Brian Fitzgerald - a vice-president at investment banking giant Credit Suisse - walked out of court a free man. So why is he at large and able to cycle again? As the inquest heard, under UK law, the speed limit only applies to 'mechanically propelled vehicles'. And therefore, in the words of the police review: 'There were no criminal acts which would allow prosecution.'

Matthew Briggs (left), whose wife Kim (right of left) was killed by a cyclist riding a 'Olympic-style' bike with no front breaks in 2016, said he was 'deeply distraught' following a recent meeting with Roads Minister Richard Holden. The Offence Against The Person Act 1861, an archaic statute that was not passed over for horse carriages, makes it so a cyclist who murders someone while riding recklessly that he can only be banned for a maximum term of two years.' Ministers, including former transportation minister Grant Shapps, had promised to address the problem and introduce new legislation to increase the sentences. However, the Department of Transport has told families of murdered cyclist victims that the legislation will be impossible to reform due to a lack of parliamentary time before the next General Election, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Marvin Sordell, a former England Under-21, is leading Broke, a new short film that depicts footballers' mental health problems. Broke was unveiled this week, coincident with mental health week, and stars former Fulham footballer Matthew Briggs, Hustle, and Luther actor Rob Jarvis, as well as ex Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux. William Miller, a former Tottenham Hotspur and England Youth footballer, produces the film, while Marvin Sordell, the project's executive producer, is Marvin Sordell.