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Haulier fined for BDA dismisses reaction study
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VAT cola fraud
A NORTHERN IRELAND haulier has been convicted for his part in a £750,000 VAT scam.
Investigating police officer Detective Inspector Sam Sittlingon said that according to the paperwork the fraudsters produced,"they were supplying more Coca-Cola to Ireland than CocaCola actually produced".
James Convery of Newry claimed his firm was moving up to 216 loads of the drink per week.
Convery was fined £500 and his co-accused, brothers Kenneth and Raymond Mackin, were ordered to pay £750,000 in compensation and were given suspended prison sentences. THE BRITISH DYSLEXIA Association (BDA) has dismissed a study that claims that dyslexia can slow down drivers' reaction times more than moderate drinking can.
The BDA says the Norwegian study is "too small to provide reliable,scientific results".
The research, by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim, tested 17 volunteers, six of whom were dyslexic.
It claims that drivers with the reading and writing disorder took 30% longer than normal to react to traffic signs.
The BDA's policy director, Carol Youngs, points out that not only does the small number of those in the study undermine its credibility, but that many dyslexics have shown themselves to have excellent reaction times.
"Jackie Stewart is dyslexic and I never noticed any problem with his reaction time when he was driving in Formula 1," she says.
Youngs adds that although some dyslexics may have problems with reading written signs they generally have no difficulty with the symbols for signs concerned with safety.
"They might get lost or take longer to reach their destination, but this doesn't mean that they are a danger to anybody else," she says.