Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
Dedworth.
I don't what happened in your case but from what you said, it might have been that but for the errors, which might well have been typing errors by the civilian staff who prepared the court papers and not errors by the police officer as you say, you would may well have been convicted of the offence. So maybe you were lucky that the errors, wherever they were made, existed.

When police prosecute almost anyone, that person will always argue that they were innocent and the police got it wrong. I remember being in hospital as a teenager and two guys in the same ward had collided with each other when both were driving motorcycles around a bend in opposite directions. Both claimed it was the other who was at fault and not them.

Its a Funny old life !
Could be civilian staff but I somehow doubt it - these schoolboy errors were on the handwritten so called Notice of Intention to Prosecute signed by the clowns Sergeant who didn't even see the incident. The PCSO was so eager to get me done that the papers were submitted to the CPS within hours of confronting me. These papers gave me 28 days to reply confirming who was driving which I duly did, thankfully by recorded delivery.

I heard nothing for 2 months then out of the blue I received a court summons for failure to provide the ID of driver details. Unbeknown to me they'd dropped the original allegations – probably after considering the circumstances which I verbally gave to a senior officer and confirmed in writing.

The PCSO muppet had told me I was overtaking on the “wrong side of the road” – this was all at 15mph and I thought one could only be on the wrong side in order to overtake.

Sorry to drone on but it angers me that a dangerous moron like that is employed albeit as an ersatz policeman.