LONDON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- A young British cyclist, who knocked over and killed a 44-year-old woman in east London earlier this year, was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in jail in a young offenders' institution.
Charlie Alliston was traveling on a fixed-wheel track bike with no front brakes before crashing into Kim Briggs in February last year, reports said. He was 18 years old at that time.
Alliston was cleared of her manslaughter, but found guilty of bodily harm by "wanton or furious driving".
Briggs, a mother of two, died after being injured while crossing Old Street in east London last February.
She suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull, and died a week later in hospital.
In a statement outside court, Briggs' widower Matthew, called for the introduction of new laws, including causing death by dangerous cycling.
He said the case demonstrated the "gap in the law when it comes to dealing with death or serious injury by dangerous cycling".
"To have to rely on either manslaughter at one end, or a Victorian law that doesn't even mention causing death at the other end, tells us there is a gap," he said.
"The fact that what happened to Kim is rare is not a reason to be no remedy," he added.
