Personal Life
Julian Brazier married Katherine Elizabeth Blagden on 21 July 1984 in north-east Hampshire, and they have three sons (twins born July 1990, and another son born December 1992). He is the son-in-law of Brigadier General Paddy Blagden, a United Nations de-mining expert.
In February 2002, he was given a four-month suspended sentence following the death of a motorcyclist in a traffic accident in Italy on 29 August 2001. He was driving on the wrong side of the road approaching a sharp bend when he hit a motorcyclist, 42-year old Carlo Civitelli, near Siena. He used his TA training to give Mr Civitelli first aid at the scene, but the man died three days later. Italian police found that Mr Civitelli's helmet was not properly fitted and that he was probably speeding. After the verdict, Julian Brazier said in a statement: "I am still deeply saddened by the tragic consequences of my lapse of attention. My thoughts are with the Civitelli family whose reaction to the whole terrible business has been so generous". He also said "as a parent, I shall carry the memory of this man's death with me for the rest of my life."
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