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Court disputes liars' defence
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A driver branded a liar by a Crown Court judge has been ordered to do 200 hours of community service and to pay 1500 costs—and the judge praised his employer.
Peter Jones, of Bootle, had accused Anthony McVeigh, forrer transport manager at Dams International, of "putting im up to it" when he pleaded guilty to ll offences of falsifyg tachograph charts. Jones told Liverpool Crown Court that 3 had been acting under instructions, claiming McVeigh had town him how to "wind the clock back".
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Mark Laprell lid they did not accept that McVeigh was involved. When the outside tachograph analyst used by Dams had warned McVeigh that he suspected tachograph falsification McVeigh had gone to the VI for advice. This was odd if he had been involved.
When the falsification was confirmed by the VI Jones was dismissed.
Traffic examiner Peter Isley said it was unusual for a company to come to the VI ith falsified charts. There was no evidence of falsification of other drivers and no suggestion that Jones had been overorked or given unreasonable schedules.
McVeigh said he did not give work out to the drivers; this as the Job of current transport manager Richard Burke, He old he had gone to the VI as he was aware that if they tecked the charts themselves and found irregularities the impany could be reported to the Traffic Commissioner and iuld lose its 0-licence.
He denied giving specific instructions to Jones or showing m how to wind back the clock.
Burke said that Jones, who was paid a fixed salary, would t given a fully loaded vehicle at the beginning of the week rid it was up to him to arrange his week's work. None of the urneys were timed and the greatest requirement put on m was simply to deliver furniture on certain days.
Sentencing Jones, Judge Reid said he was satisfied that ines had not been induced, instructed or pressurised by cVeigh to falsify charts. He had done it for his own reasons, lough it was hard to say what they were.
"The notion is fanciful that he put Jones up to It and then Ow the whistle on hlm," Reid added.