Read this tonight in my local rag, I thought it would make a few on hear smile.
Highfliers Ian and Jayne Oliphant-Thompson of la-Residencia Exton have been fine a £1000 and 6 points each for not stating who was driving their Land Rover in Exmouth A376 at 40mph in a 30 limit. Both wrote to the court saying both had driven the vehicle to and fro Exmouth that day and didn’t know which one was speeding. Being they are multi-millionaires I think it was a result. Would of been a lot cheaper to take the £60 fine and 3 points than to argue the toss.HEE,HEEEee
Obviously their reason of thought was that the police couldn’t prove who was driving so the case would be thrown out, I’m actually surprised that it was taken to court when you consider 2 kids up here killed a pensioner when joy riding, the police caught them later that day and they both blamed each other as being the driver which resulted in neither being took to caught for death by dangerous driving.
A couple of years later one was bragging he was the driver but got off with it in court as it was hear say 
miketdt:
Read this tonight in my local rag, I thought it would make a few on hear smile.
Highfliers Ian and Jayne Oliphant-Thompson of la-Residencia Exton have been fine a £1000 and 6 points each for not stating who was driving their Land Rover in Exmouth A376 at 40mph in a 30 limit. Both wrote to the court saying both had driven the vehicle to and fro Exmouth that day and didn’t know which one was speeding. Being they are multi-millionaires I think it was a result. Would of been a lot cheaper to take the £60 fine and 3 points than to argue the toss.HEE,HEEEee
So they’re multi millionaires, a grand to them is like 10p to us, hardly going to send them down the Sally Army is it? What difference does it make that they are millionaires anyway? Is that the funny part? That a millionaire got nicked? That’s a pretty ■■■■ poor attitude mate, they could be millionaires because they made a huge breakthrough in medicine, the kind of thing that stops kids dying, they may just be very good at their jobs, or an ex lorry driver & his missus who used to work in the depot canteen that have won a few quid on the lotto. I suspect that you are the kind of person that wishes for rain if you see someone in a convertible Ferrari, instead of thinking wow that’s a nice car 
I find this disturbing…
So the court couldn’t prove who committed the crime so everyone gets fined….
This can’t be right. We are supposed to be innocent until proved guilty. Magistrates can’t just convict everyone who might have done it — can they? If a red haired man robs a shop — can they just round up all the red-heads in town and throw them in jail?
Reading the reports, it seems to me that their mistake was to not turn up in court to explain. That annoyed the magistrates and they got a bit above themselves. This will probably be appealed and thrown out. According to this — anyone who shares a car should keep a log of who drives it, and when.
They both could have charged with perverting the course of justice and been given prison sentences.
Santa:
I find this disturbing…can they just round up all the red-heads in town and throw them in jail?
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That’s a bit harsh Santa, I mean nobody likes a ginger, but that’s a bit extreme
ROG:
They both could have charged with perverting the course of justice and been given prison sentences.
can’t quite see how ROG? they both said they had driven the road that day, so not deining that they had not been driving it,
they just said they didn’t know who was driving at that time. In that case, "the case"should not of gone to court. the court has to prove who was driving, and unless they had a picture taken from the front showing the driver so it could be proved, i think they will be on a very sticky wicket in fining them both. an appeal should be no problem.
you can only get done for not telling the police who was driving from what i have read they have done that
I think that an appeal would be no problem, as has been said, they have admitted that they were both driving the car on the day in question, it’s up to the Police to prove which one of them committed the ‘crime.’ They haven’t been able to prove that so they cannot find anybody guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, one of them is innocent no matter which way you look at it & therefore our courts have knowingly punished an innocent person, they may have been guilty of perverting the course of justice, although I can’t see how that can be if they are admitting that it could’ve been either one of them, but even if the courts think that both of them admitting they were driving on that day just to get around the law, I wouldn’t have thought that the sentencing guidelines for perverting the course of justice don’t involve penalty points on people’s driving licences.