Driver with 33 False Records Escapes Immediate Imprisonment at Crown Court

This driver, represented at the Crown Court by barrister Harry Bowyer, managed to acquire two driver cards which he used to extend his driver’s hours in order to try to save his failing business. He pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and had taken particular care not to corrupt his drivers by involving them in the criminal behaviour. The Judge accepted that the offences were born of desperation rather than greed and that the defendant had stopped offending of his own volition when the crisis was over. These factors taken with his good character and age allowed the Judge to suspend the inevitable sentence of imprisonment.