How to tell when police “laid info to court”?
How to tell when police “laid info to court”?
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Butterfly88

Original Poster:

11 posts

69 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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Received a court hearing scheduled letter for offences not guilty of. Only date on letter is “date posted” which is over 7 months after police interview. No date on the attached police report and the witness statement was taken nearly 8 months ago. How can I tell if the police laid information to court within 6 months as I believe they are required to?

Newton472

165 posts

71 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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What were the offences?

Butterfly88

Original Poster:

11 posts

69 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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Failure to stop and careless driving

Pothole

34,367 posts

311 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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I'm no expert but the force's criminal justice department should be able to tell you. Can your solicitor not find out?

Butterfly88

Original Poster:

11 posts

69 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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Probably but I can’t speak to them until next week and out of my mind worrying

Pothole

34,367 posts

311 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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Butterfly88 said:
Probably but I can’t speak to them until next week and out of my mind worrying
I thought you weren't guilty?

carinaman

25,169 posts

201 months

Friday 19th February 2021
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Pothole said:
Butterfly88 said:
Probably but I can’t speak to them until next week and out of my mind worrying
I thought you weren't guilty?
Innocent until proven guilty?

An awful, tragic case where a wrongful conviction probably resulted in death:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2ks

If you want an idea of what being on the end of false allegations may feel like you may want to read that book:


Pothole

34,367 posts

311 months

Saturday 20th February 2021
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carinaman said:
Innocent until proven guilty?

- other irrelevant fluff
Yawn

martinbiz

3,698 posts

174 months

Saturday 20th February 2021
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Butterfly88 said:
Failure to stop and careless driving
Both summary only offences, so absent any extraordinary circumstances 6 month rule should apply, the police seem to have been aware of the offences condsiderably longer then 6 months, so well worth looking at, but not a lot you can do until Monday as far as contacting them goes. Maybe AGT will see this and offer some defintive advice

Geoffscars

97 posts

129 months

Saturday 20th February 2021
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Ask the magistrates clerk or at least one of his or her staff. They will have a record of it. I’m a bit out of it now but I believe the information will have been laid electronically using the courts system
If it’s out of time then write to the cps and point it out they will withdraw quietly

agtlaw

7,398 posts

235 months

Saturday 20th February 2021
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It’s 2021 so the police prosecutor generally wouldn’t commence proceedings by “laying an information.” They use the so-called new procedure - in force since April 2015.

It would be more helpful if OP properly identified what has been received.