A lorry driver was arrested as he tried to board a flight at Heathrow Airport after he failed to pay a fine issued at a Dumfries court.
It was imposed at the town’s Justice of the Peace Court because the man, who has not been named, exceeded the daily driving limit.
He was stopped by police as he tried to catch a flight to Poland.
The Scottish Courts Service said he was allowed to continue when his partner paid the fine in full over the phone.
The court service’s chief operations officer Cliff Binning said: "If you are planning a trip abroad, you should ensure that all outstanding fines are paid before booking your ticket.
“Otherwise you risk being stopped at the airport by the police and having your travel plans disrupted.”
A new report shows that 86% of the value of sheriff court fines imposed between April 2011 and March 2014 has been paid or were in the process of being paid through instalments.
topmixer11:
Yet 3 Fifteen year old girls fitting certain profile can just board flights with no questions asked
They did not have any outstanding fines so no reason to stop them at the airport.
And the driver was Polish? ( just presuming as he was flying to poland, link to news article doesnt work ) If so then there is every reason to stop him from fleeing the country without paying his fine.
topmixer11:
Yet 3 Fifteen year old girls fitting certain profile can just board flights with no questions asked
Be easier to stop flights to Turkey than stop 3 Muslim Girls, could you imagine the human rights out cry if they were truly going to a wedding in Turkey. It would be all about them being picked out because they were Muslim, nothing about trying to save the misguided from joining hell on earth
emwmarine:
They probably need to focus on not letting people come back from Syria rather than stopping them going.
Why , we all know they’re out there building schools and hospitals, yeah right
nick2008:
Trying to jump ship and not pay his fines …mark his passport undesirable don’t let him back
My thoughts mate
dieseldog999:
silly man…he should have taken the ferry to Belfast,then flew from Dublin,no worries
dieseldog999:
silly man…he should have taken the ferry to Belfast,then flew from Dublin,no worries
Ha Ha, probably wouldn’t have been the first
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it was usually flipflop takes the lid off at dunragit bridge,drops trailer under the bridge or wherever it ends up…solos it to the ferry,and legs it as a foot passenger to Belfast. theres been 1 or 2 have done that and been escorted back off it again,
My flabber is well and truly gasted I am still reeling from the fact that somehow the various government agencies have managed to coordinate something with an actual positive outcome,although there are a number of posts that would suggest that it is in all probability a fluke given the numerous quoted other failures and given this country’s elite self serving legal system with the usual suspects having their snouts well and truly in the trough its probably cost the good ol british tax payer around five grand to recover fifty quid.
topmixer11:
Yet 3 Fifteen year old girls fitting certain profile can just board flights with no questions asked
Haven’t followed this in detail but how is a 15 year old girl allowed to board a flight alone? I thought some kind of authorisation by parents/relatives would be needed. I seem to remember minors being chaperoned by airport staff if they were young in the US so I assumed a similar thing happened here?!
topmixer11:
Yet 3 Fifteen year old girls fitting certain profile can just board flights with no questions asked
Haven’t followed this in detail but how is a 15 year old girl allowed to board a flight alone? I thought some kind of authorisation by parents/relatives would be needed. I seem to remember minors being chaperoned by airport staff if they were young in the US so I assumed a similar thing happened here?!
My understanding was that only two of them were 15, the other being a year older - and one of the 15-yr-olds was using her 17-yr-old sister’s passport anyway. I don’t think there are any rules forbidding unaccompanied minors, although most airlines have their own chaperone scheme for youngsters (typically those aged 5 to 16).
Well done, most of them have the money to pay it, they just dont.
As for dartford crossing, the cars are probably mostly eastern block registered and probably still in england so it shouldn’t be to hard. I would happily hunt them all down for a small percentage of the fine.
Concretejim:
Well done, most of them have the money to pay it, they just dont.
As for dartford crossing, the cars are probably mostly eastern block registered and probably still in england so it shouldn’t be to hard. I would happily hunt them all down for a small percentage of the fine.
, we all know they’re out there building schools and hospitals, yeah right 
