Do you remember that chap Merlin.....

......who was going to tell us how he got on with his appeal against his
speeding conviction and never did? It appears that the magistrates upped
the fixed penalty to a £100 fine and threw in £450 costs for good measure.
Read all about it (if you can be bothered) at:

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=1357
7630&method=full&siteid=50142

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Kevin Lambert

*Snort*. What a *total* wanker. He'll make a great lawyer.

 

****. nowhere near enough in the way of punishment.

 

Yep.

Hah !

Mather, of Brynmor Drive in Flint, challenged the accuracy of the
machine and its use and said a mobile telephone in the police vehicle
at the time could have affected it.

Tosser.

And to cap it :
After the hearing Mather said he would not be appealing because he
wished to concentrate on his law exams.

Gawd help us.

 

"After the hearing Mather said he would not be appealing because he
wished to concentrate on his law exams."

*snort*

fantastic.

 

Hello, is that the OED? I think I have the definitive definition of
/schadenfreude/.

 

That makes me smile, I thought he was a smug self obsessed git.

 

The website seems to be having difficulties, or at least I can't access
it ATM, any chance of a cut and paste?

 

sweller wrote:

Speed charge upheld at trial

Oct 31 2003

Flintshire Chronicle


A MATURE law student had to pay dearly when he sought to challenge a
speeding charge.

James Stuart Mather, 52, had originally claimed he could not be
convicted of breaking a 30mph speed limit in Northop Road, Flint,
because the signs were invalid.

It was claimed the case could reopen the cases of hundreds of other
motorists and was compared to a case where speeding charges against two
West Yorkshire police officers had been thrown out.

But it all came crashing down about his ears when Mather, who had
refused to accept a £60 fixed penalty ticket, was convicted and ended up
with a £550 bill.

Originally, he had claimed that the shape and colour of the 30mph signs
were wrong.

But before his trial started at Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold
today he conceded the speed restriction was in order and that evidence
which the prosecution wished to use was admissible.

But he challenged the prosecution over the use and accuracy of the LTi
20.20 laser speed detection device used by the Arrive Alive campaign.

Mather was convicted of driving at 41mph in a 30mph area and was fined
£100 with £450 costs.

Prosecutor Gerallt Evans said he relied on the evidence of PC Harvey
Seddon, an experienced officer, who initially formed the opinion that
Mather's Mondeo car was breaking the limit. When PC Seddon used the
approved speed detection device it showed the car was travelling at 41mph.

Mather, of Brynmor Drive in Flint, challenged the accuracy of the
machine and its use and said a mobile telephone in the police vehicle at
the time could have affected it.

PC Seddon said there was a mobile telephone more than two metres away
but if there had been any interference with the machine it would have
aborted.

He agreed that later guidance from the Association of Chief Police
Officers now said all mobile telephones should be switched off during
speed detection monitoring.

After the hearing Mather said he would not be appealing because he
wished to concentrate on his law exams.

 

All of which just goes to show that it does to pay to listen to our more
friendly janitors when they tell you how the courts work.

It isn't very often that I laugh at other's misfortune but this idiot
deserved everything he had thrown at him.

 

Turned out the problem was my end and the router had had a hizzy fit (I
thought I'd deleted that post from the queue).

Thanks both Dnc and Wizard.

 

"After the hearing Mather said he would not be appealing because he
wished to concentrate on his law exams."


Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

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So does this mean all those old mobile phones hanging around the house
could form the basis of a speed check blocking device ) ??

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dunno, but apparently mobiles also interfered with those digital
breathalysers.

Or so the nice officer told me when I was blowing into a tube of
crystals with a bag on the end. I naturally asked when they'd catch up
and get the proper gear

 

It's not a Belkin, by any chance?

 

Netgear, covered in books. I think it may have got a bit warm...

 

The guy got the whole thing screwed wrong approach.

There is *so* much evidence about the failings of this equipment
available.
When are the UK police going to throw away the LT1 20.20 . The majority
of other police forces have stopped using them due to inaccuracies with
hand held use and the problem they have with the triple LED source
leading to incorrect target acquisition..

 

*splutter*

What?! No, no! Let them keep it...

Schtum.
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Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

That is a shame.

I went and had a look at the thread when you first mentioned it but have
not been back since. Seems to me that if they have come back and done
the mea culpa bit then they should be treated with good grace. Not
doing so rather makes the denizens of nanae wankers of the first order.

 

I'd agree...

*cough*

Nanae often makes this place look positively fluffy.

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