Woman, 86, convicted after car insurance typo error
Discussion
sixor8 said:
Sounds cruel, but they have to do this. Or, word gets round that by putting one letter wrong 'by accident' would get you much cheaper insurance. Possibly unlucky that the make of car was the same (if it was?) so not spotted earlier. 
ThisIt is a technical offence and she was given a short, conditional discharge which meant that so long as the error was corrected the conviction was spent as soon as the conditional discharge expired.
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
I’ve got to say I agree. I find that utterly unpalatable, I realise the sentence is about as low as you can go but…….Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
When we can’t be arsed to prosecute much worst low life scumbags who are actually effecting honest citizens lives (assault, theft, domestic burglary etc etc then it seems wrong.
The law is about honesty, justice and protecting everyone. This just stinks.
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
This.....!Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
_Rodders_ said:
In two minds on that one. Rather draconian way of dealing with it but I've got some serious questions about her fitness to drive if she's unable to check the main details on the document when they were posted out. She will have had atleast 3 chances to spot the mistake.
It would be an easy thing to miss, as you 'see' the number as recognisable so your brain short-cuts and corrects the error. Its why its essential to get someone else to proof-read your own writing.
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
What's the answer then? Anyone get's off scot free as long as they claim to entered the details of their Ferrari as a 1.0 Fiesta? At what age do you think the cut off should be. Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
it's an offence, she broke the law. Unwittingly maybe, but a percentage of people that speed dont intend to break the law, they just have a lapse. Maybe that should be a valid defense as well.
if you dont want to risk breaking the law take a bus.
55palfers said:
Magistrate had the power to refer back to DVLA.
He just couldn't be arsed.
Well,He just couldn't be arsed.
“In the pensioner's case, David Pollard, a magistrate sitting at Teesside Magistrates' Court, opted to accept the written guilty plea and impose a conviction, rather than asking the DVLA to do further checks on the public interest in the prosecution.”
If he has a written guilty plea sitting on his desk in front of him, I reckon it would take quite a bit for him to become sufficiently arsed to reject that plea and send the DVLA off to do some homework.
BlackTails said:
55palfers said:
Magistrate had the power to refer back to DVLA.
He just couldn't be arsed.
Well,He just couldn't be arsed.
In the pensioner's case, David Pollard, a magistrate sitting at Teesside Magistrates' Court, opted to accept the written guilty plea and impose a conviction, rather than asking the DVLA to do further checks on the public interest in the prosecution.
If he has a written guilty plea sitting on his desk in front of him, I reckon it would take quite a bit for him to become sufficiently arsed to reject that plea and send the DVLA off to do some homework.
Defendant should have opted for jury trial
MB140 said:
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
I ve got to say I agree. I find that utterly unpalatable, I realise the sentence is about as low as you can go but .Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
When we can t be arsed to prosecute much worst low life scumbags who are actually effecting honest citizens lives (assault, theft, domestic burglary etc etc then it seems wrong.
The law is about honesty, justice and protecting everyone. This just stinks.
People on here saying it's her own fault, I wonder if they'd be saying the same if it was their 86 year old mother?
I can't think of anything else that I'd rather they spent their time on.AbbeyNormal said:
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
What's the answer then? Anyone get's off scot free as long as they claim to entered the details of their Ferrari as a 1.0 Fiesta? At what age do you think the cut off should be. Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
it's an offence, she broke the law. Unwittingly maybe, but a percentage of people that speed dont intend to break the law, they just have a lapse. Maybe that should be a valid defense as well.
if you dont want to risk breaking the law take a bus.
TX.
croyde said:
Fekin ridiculous. Shoplifters allowed to nick whatever they want. Fire anyone that tries to stop them.
Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
I'm inclined to agree, assuming she paid a reasonable amount, I can't imagine her insurance is normally particularly expensive.Illegal E Motorbikes everywhere but why don't we get an easy bust and do an old lady that hit the wrong key on her keyboard.
What if the 'wrong' plate belonged to a Lambo and the insurance company pocketed the windfall.
What a waste of tax payers money!
Word seems to have gone around that you can just shoplift and get away with it, but that's apparently something we just have to put up with even though it's a much more confronting and costly crime.
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