Public money was wasted on case

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Mar 2012, 06:00 BST
FOLLOWING the legal farce regarding Councillor Carl Maynard and his MOT, which has been running since September 1 2011, I have taken the precaution of checking online the status of my own MOT, at www.directgov.uk and can assure the Chief Constable and the CPS that it is in order.

I do this, that in the event of being stopped by the police, it does not take the best part of six months, and several court appearances, for them to access the information regarding my MOT, available to me in a few seconds.

The term “insufficient evidence”, as reported in the paper, strikes me as a curious term to use in a case where the “evidence” is surely black or white, either the MOT exists, or it does not, a fact readily established as I have proved in my own research.