Please do not take every opportunity to trundle out mnenmonics.
This is what the pilot said.
There was some low cloud in the vicinity of the airfield, but I was not worried as I had heard one of the club instructors telling a colleague that there was a bit of cloud to the south, but it wasn't a problem elsewhere.
We have no idea of the experience of this pilot but that didnt seem an unreasonable basis on which to depart, particularly if the pilot had obtained further on route weather (which we dont know).
Speculate as you will but we have very little idea whether it was reasonable for the pilot to accept a SVFR departure in the first place.