Health worker/mum perverts the course of justice
Facinating story of woman who scrapes with the law after fouth minor speeding offence...
However
if the EHCR rules that the right to silence is more important than section 172 then this case shoud be overturned too.
Quote:
WHEN Amanda Legg stood before a Crown Court judge she was convinced her worst nightmare was about to come true in the form of a 12-month prison sentence.
Ashamed of her crime, she had painstakingly made preparations for her family to cope without her before admitting perverting the course of justice.
The enormity of what she had done was sinking in as the daughter of a former police officer contemplated the devastating effect on her family, friends and career.
But the offence that had put the respectable mother and hospital worker in the dock was not one of murder, robbery or arson.
It had all started with a speed camera.
Amanda had "swapped" penalty points with her husband and had been caught.... continued
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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV
Snap Unhappy“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code
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