Banned from driving ? Explain !
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Can any of the resident BiB or anyone else explain this ?
I recall the bloke with the warning sign being banned, but this is even more ridiculous ; as far as I can see the "justice" has absolutely nothing to do with the crime at all.
Is a driving ban now being used as random punishment ?
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Six men banned from driving after they were caught hare coursing illegally on farmland in West Norfolk have appealed against their sentence.
King's Lynn magistrates were yesterday due to sen-tence another four members of the gang spotted at Terrington Marsh, near Lynn, but adjourned for the outcome of the co-offenders' appeal.
As reported in the EDP last month, the six men were disqualified until April 1 and fined a total of £4000 after they admitted trespassing in purs-uit of game with 11 lurcher-type dogs on November 17.
The offenders are: Joseph Jefford, 21, of Cambridge; James Crickmore, 24, and William Winter, 27, of separate addresses in Chesterton, near Cambridge; Joseph Lee, 17, of Landbeach, near Cambridge; Matthew Wenman, 20, of Horsham, West Sussex; and Joe Winter, 31, of Cambridge.
They have had their disqualifications suspended until their appeal is heard at crown court on April 7.
The other members – John Jefford, 28, Christopher Jenkins, 19, Henry Lee, 26, all of Chesterton, near Cambridge, and John Lee, 31, of Wellingborough – were all convicted in their absence at the previous hearing.
I recall the bloke with the warning sign being banned, but this is even more ridiculous ; as far as I can see the "justice" has absolutely nothing to do with the crime at all.
Is a driving ban now being used as random punishment ?
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Six men banned from driving after they were caught hare coursing illegally on farmland in West Norfolk have appealed against their sentence.
King's Lynn magistrates were yesterday due to sen-tence another four members of the gang spotted at Terrington Marsh, near Lynn, but adjourned for the outcome of the co-offenders' appeal.
As reported in the EDP last month, the six men were disqualified until April 1 and fined a total of £4000 after they admitted trespassing in purs-uit of game with 11 lurcher-type dogs on November 17.
The offenders are: Joseph Jefford, 21, of Cambridge; James Crickmore, 24, and William Winter, 27, of separate addresses in Chesterton, near Cambridge; Joseph Lee, 17, of Landbeach, near Cambridge; Matthew Wenman, 20, of Horsham, West Sussex; and Joe Winter, 31, of Cambridge.
They have had their disqualifications suspended until their appeal is heard at crown court on April 7.
The other members – John Jefford, 28, Christopher Jenkins, 19, Henry Lee, 26, all of Chesterton, near Cambridge, and John Lee, 31, of Wellingborough – were all convicted in their absence at the previous hearing.
streaky said:
Section 146 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 enables the court to impose a driving disqualification on any person convicted of an offence after 31st December 1997. It states:-
146 (1) The court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence committed after 31st December 1997 may, instead of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way, order him to be disqualified, for such period as it thinks fit, from holding or obtaining a driving licence.
Streaky
So basically, yes
What a f**ked up country we live in.
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