Repeat Offender Charged with Attempted Murder of Police Officer Was FREED EARLY from Prison for Drugs and Driving Crimes
Simranjit Kajla was serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence in 2022 but is now accused of hitting a police officer while driving disqualified — for the second time
The man now charged with the attempted murder of PC Christopher Miller should, by most accounts, still have been in prison.
Simranjit Kajla, 28, was sentenced to five and a half years behind bars in 2022 for multiple serious offences, including possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, driving while disqualified, and driving without insurance.
Yet, in May 2025, less than three years into that sentence, he has now been charged in connection with a hit-and-run that left a brave Thames Valley Police officer critically injured.
PC Christopher Miller, from the force’s Roads Policing Unit, was struck by a car while on duty on the B416 Bells Hill in Stoke Poges. The vehicle involved — a white BMW — failed to stop. PC Miller remains in a critical condition in the hospital, and the investigation is ongoing.
Kajla now faces four fresh charges: attempted murder, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, and using a vehicle without insurance.
Shockingly, this marks the second time he has been charged with driving while disqualified, raising even more urgent questions about why he was back on the streets at all.
In the 2022 case, reported by local media at the time, Kajla was convicted at Reading Crown Court of dealing heroin and cocaine and of disqualified driving.
He was also given an additional six-month sentence for breaching a suspended sentence previously handed down for dealing cannabis. The offences were serious enough to warrant a substantial custodial sentence.
But like many dangerous offenders today, Kajla did not serve his full sentence. In a criminal justice system that increasingly feels broken, early release has become routine — and in this case, it may have come at a devastating cost.
For a serving police officer to be critically injured by a man who had already been convicted of dangerous and illegal driving, not once but twice, will be deeply troubling to the public, and to emergency workers already facing enormous risks every day on duty.
Thames Valley Police continue to investigate the incident, and a number of other individuals have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender or perverting the course of justice. Kajla is remanded in custody as he awaits court proceedings.
There will rightly be questions over sentencing policy, early release decisions, and how the system can allow high-risk repeat offenders to walk free so soon. If you would like to stayed updated on this story, be sure to sign up for this newsletter
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The decision process behind these early releases…………my opinion is simply unprintable.
As BP's comment - well said. Time for our out of touch Politicians & Judiciary to get a grip.
Britain's law-abiding people are being put at risk by their dangerous decisions.