Jail threat for false tacks
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by Mike Jewell • A judge has threatened to imprison a driver and a Herefordshirebased haulier who admitted falsifying tacho charts.
Colin Bowen of Shiloh, Bearwood, Pembridge and Edward Blatchford of Oak Cottage, Wigmore, Leominster, have pleaded guilty to seven and nine charges respectively of making false entries on their tachographs.
For Bowen, the prosecution a York Crown Court asked for a further charge of falsification; one charge of forging a tachograph chart and nine charges of aiding and abetting Blatchford to falsify charts to be left on file.
Adjourning sentence for reports, Judge Jonathan Crabtree told them he had immediately considered jailing the pair when he looked at the number of offences. His only hesita tion was the time the case had taken to reach court—the offences took place more than three years ago.
The prosecution accepted Bowen and Blatchford's not-guilty pleas on a charge of conspiring to falsify tacho charts.