Punishment for cloning plates

[Never you mind]

A woman in the next village has cloned the plate of one of her neighbours. Yes really. Well it's easy to find a black MX5 to clone if all you have to do is look down the street 10 yards. She claims she bought the plate off ebasy as a cherished plate (its just a normal run of the mill plate) and was unaware that another car is using that very same plate. Car has been taken off her by the police but I am curious as to what they will charge her for.

Rumour has it that she owed money and that balifs where coming to collect the car at some point.

Edited by Never you mind on Wednesday 11th September 14:02

Edited by Never you mind on Wednesday 11th September 14:02

[anonymous-user]

my car plate was cloned, i think it is perverting the course of duty, well in my case speeding tickets,insurance, tax..

[anonymous-user]

They let the scrotes go that drive around in stolen cars on false plates, so unlikely for PCOJ?

[V8RX7]

I suspect it depends if they can prove it's deliberate.

Locally an HGV was found stuck on a tree stump, full of rubbish within 50m of where similar rubbish was dumped

Police said it's circumstantial, not enough evidence to convict.

[bigandclever]

Fraud, isn't it?

[Wingo]

HTH with my mate google


https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magi...

[Never you mind]

So a community order and a fine. Seems rather weak for commiting such an offence. Her reg (not the cloned one) shows the car as uninsured, no tax and no MOT.

[rallycross]

Someone has cloned one of my cars presumably from seeing it on autotrader, this is the first time I've had a car cloned from an advert in over 25 yrs.

The little scrote who's done this lives miles away from me in N London and has already had one ticket for going through a bus lane, would be nice if when caught his car was crushed (or maybe both of his feet were crushed, I'd prefer that as a punishment).

[meatballs]

Never you mind said:

A woman in the next village has cloned the plate of one of her neighbours. Yes really. Well it's easy to find a black MX5 to clone if all you have to do is look down the street 10 yards. She claims she bought the plate off ebasy as a cherished plate (its just a normal run of the mill plate) and was unaware that another car is using that very same plate. Car has been taken off her by the police but I am curious as to what they will charge her for.

Rumour has it that she owed money and that balifs where coming to collect the car at some point.

Edited by Never you mind on Wednesday 11th September 14:02

Edited by Never you mind on Wednesday 11th September 14:02

She sounds a bit cuckoo

[iDrive]

5Cylinder said:

They let the scrotes go that drive around in stolen cars on false plates, so unlikely for PCOJ?

Who are they and where?

[ging84]

if it was done on private land to avoid bailiffs in a civil property dispute would it even be an offense ?

[meatballs]

ging84 said:

if it was done on private land to avoid bailiffs in a civil property dispute would it even be an offense ?

Two offences under vehicle excise and registration act are not displaying a registration or obscuring it.

Neither really fit the bill well. Neither mention an invalid or incorrect registration.

Other offence is not to comply with the regulations. Relevant one is the The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001. Again nothing about a fake.

Can't see any exemptions in either for not displaying a registration plate on private land bit I got bored digging.

Could go for fraud instead.