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| A motorcyclist caught speeding at 122mph (196km/h) with his 14-year-old son riding pillion has been sentenced to six months in prison. | A motorcyclist caught speeding at 122mph (196km/h) with his 14-year-old son riding pillion has been sentenced to six months in prison. |
| Robert Bennett, 47, from Barnstaple in Devon, had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at an earlier hearing. | |
| Exeter Crown Court heard his son was not wearing any protective clothing at the time of the offence in April 2008. | |
| Sentencing Bennett, the judge said that if he had lost control of the bike it would have become a "missile". | Sentencing Bennett, the judge said that if he had lost control of the bike it would have become a "missile". |
| The lack of responsibility is almost unbelievable Judge Phillip Wassell | |
| Bennett had picked his son up for an access visit when he was caught by a police mobile speed camera on the North Devon Link Road, near South Molton. | |
| His son was filmed holding on to the seat of the motorbike with his bare hands. | |
| Bennett said he had "pulled back the throttle" on his Suzuki 1300cc motorbike because it had "started to rain". | |
| Judge Phillip Wassell told Bennett: "Had you lost control of your motorcycle it would have become a missile and caused a serious accident and probably death would have followed. | |
| "The lack of responsibility is almost unbelievable. | |
| "The matter is so serious a custodial sentence cannot be avoided." |