Speeding motorist tried to pass points off to aunt in India
11:00am Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Where I Live By Mike Wright
A woman caught speeding in Radlett has been given a suspended sentence after she tried to pass off the driving points onto an auntie in India.
Vaneesha Halai, 22, was speeding in Theobald Street in the village on September 5 when she was flashed by a speed camera, St Albans Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday January 27.
Hertfordshire Constabulary said after receiving a notice of intended prosecution Halai said her auntie from India had been person driving her car that day.
Enquiries by the Hertfordshire Safety Camera Partnership with the UK Border agency discovered that the aunt had returned to India before to the offence and therefore could not have been driving.
At the hearing Halai, of Reynolds Drive in Edgware, admitted to perjury and driving at excess speed.
She was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.
Halai also had her license endorsed with penalty points for the speeding offence.
PC Owens, who investigated the cases, and said: "We are seeing more of these types of offences in Hertfordshire.
"I want to make it clear to any driver thinking of falsely nominating someone else for an offence in Hertfordshire we will do everything in our power to investigate and where necessary bring these cases to court."
