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  • Top cop gets speeding trial put-off

    Nov 24, 2007 4:48 PM

    Britain’s disgraced senior traffic cop, Meredydd Hughes, has been criticised for wasting court time and taxpayer’s money after he failed to answer speeding charges at Wrexham magistrates on Wednesday (20 November).
    Hughes was granted an adjournment after claiming that he had not found a solicitor to defend him, despite the UK’s top motoring lawyer Nick Freeman – the brief dubbed ‘Mr. Loophole’ by police – having made an offer to represent him for free.
    Hughes had previously announced a cr...Read the full article
  • Re: Top cop gets speeding trial put-off

    Nov 24, 2007 4:51 PM

    Anyone surprised?

    How many drivers have been done for the same thing between him getting flashed and him telling the court he did not have time to get a brief?

    Perhaps he's looking for 'the disks'.............

  • Re: Top cop gets speeding trial put-off

    Nov 25, 2007 12:08 PM

    As I've said before, this is all well and good if we are all afforded the same treatment.

    This man has criminalised motorists for lesser offences than his. If there was ever a situation that proves the ineffectiveness of the current speed policy, this is it.

    By all means let him off the offence, but kill of the speed camera policy afterward, it's had it's day. These 'Police Officers' are no longer capable of passing judgement on a subject that's a far more complicated subject for them to comprehend.

    'G' - For Freedom, Justice and.... the other one.....
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