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PENRITH FIRM FINED £400 AFTER FAILING TO IDENTIFY DRIVER
A Penrith taxi firm has been fined £400 after failing to identify a driver to police. No representatives of the firm in Sandgate attended Carlisle Mag- istrates’ Court where the case was dealt with last month, but sent a letter to the
Bench pleading guilty to three charges. According to the Lake District Herald,
the
company was charged with failing to give information identifying a driver alleged to have been guilty of an offence at Penrith on 7th November. The
company was charged with a further two charges of the same nature, both on 8th November. The £400 fine was imposed for the first offence and the com- pany must also pay a £40 victim surcharge and £50 court costs.
SOUTH WALES CABBIE COUNTS COST OF CHARGING £5 TOO MUCH
A taxi driver who charged a customer £5 too much for a fare has been told by mag- istrates to pay £720 in fines and charges. The driver, 31, unknow- ingly picked up an undercover council officer on November 4. Two officers had ap- proached the taxi and the driver
replied: “Jump in”. He asked for
£15 up front. When the officers got out
they were not
given any change. They had seen he had not turned the meter on and went to his home five days later, telling him they want- ed to check the meter as a fault had been reported. He told them it had not been faulty and that
the regulated council tariffs were pre-set into the meter. The offi- cers then checked the distance he had trav- elled and said the 3.5-mile
journey
should have cost around £9 to £10. The South Wales Evening Post reports that, he was fined a total of £400 and £320 in costs and charges.
PLYMOUTH TAXI COUPLE FACING PRISON FOR HUHNE-STYLE DRIVING LIES
A taxi driver and his wife falsely told police she was driving his car when it triggered a speed camera on two separate occasions, a court heard. Mihai and Monica Petrescu, both aged 31, twice lied to inves- tigators so he would avoid prosecution for speeding - in the same way as disgraced for- mer minister Chris Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce. Judge Paul Darlow, sit- ting at Plymouth Crown Court, warned the Petrescus they could be sent to jail. The couple, originally from Romania but now living in London, admit- ted two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice between January 2011 and April 2011 and
again between Decem- ber 2011 and February 2012. The court heard that a car registered to the taxi driver first trig- gered a speed camera in January 2011. A notice of intended prosecution was sent to Mihai Petrescu as the registered keeper but he signed the form and sent it back, say- ing his wife Monica was behind the wheel at the time. The court heard a second form was sent to her and she accepted she had been the driver. She accepted a place on a speed awareness course as an alterna- tive to prosecution. A car registered to the taxi driver was again caught by a speed camera in December 2011. The sequence of
events was repeated again, with Monica Petrescu claiming she was the driver. The couple, speaking through an interpreter, accepted the purpose of their lies was to avoid Mihai being prosecuted for speed- ing. Judge Darlow, hearing the couple had a six- month-old baby, said they would have to “make arrangements”. He added: “There is a definite
possibility
there will be an order for imprisonment.” The couple were released on bail to be sentenced on a date to be fixed. The Petrescus pleaded guilty on the same day that Huhne and Pryce were released from prison after commit- ting a similar offence.
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