Hello
I will try to keep this short...
DH received a fixed penalty speeding ticket for allegedly going at 40 in a 30 zone. He was adamant he wasn't going 40 and believed the speed camera was incorrect and refused the fixed penalty and went to court.
To cut a long story short, he got a district judge rather than a magistrate, the police pulled in an 'expert' and he was found guilty and fined triple the original £60 fixed penalty and landed with almost £2000 in expenses.
He has asked for time to pay and has basically been told if he wants time to pay his case has to be relisted for the sentencing judge to reconsider the sentence and that his fine was based on an assumed income level and as his actual income is more than the assumed level he will probably get his fine hiked.
DH says the judge asked him for his gross and net pay before he fined him, so this feels corrupt!
Is this right? I feel like I've woken up in a banana republic - surely the fine should be about what the alleged offence is not how much an individual earns. And anyway once it is set how can the threaten to raise it because he has asked for time to pay?
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besidemyselfwithfury · 17/05/2011 21:00
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