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Son of jailed HGV driver freed
A MAN WHO was jailed for helping his trucker father falsify tachograph records has been released from prison by the Court of Appeal.
Sean Colin Newson, 37, of Saxmundham, was jailed for four months at Ipswich Crown Court in October on 16 counts of knowingly falsifying tachographs.
His father, HGV driver Colin Linder, 57, who used his son's name on charts in order to help his struggling business, was handed a six-month sentence and a year's driving ban for the same offences.
However, Newson walked free last week (5 November) after judges at the Court of Appeal ruled he had been too harshly punished.
Instead, Newson was ordered to do 60 hours' community work.
Mr Justice Tomlinson said the offence was serious, but was "committed out of the misguided loyalty of a son to a father in difficulties".
The judge added: "To have sentenced the son to a term of immediate imprisonment a little shorter than the term imposed on his father, in our judgement, failed to reflect their relative culpability."