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iart-timer tried to get mates off'
rWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD part-time driver, ▪ John James Bell was persuaded to join a consiracy to "get his mates off," a judge said last eek. Bell was convicted at Cumberland Assizes Carlisle of conspiring to falsify lorry drivers' :cords. But he was cleared of conspiring to drive yond permitted hours on the direction of Mr. istdce Wrangham.
"I accept you had nothing to do with the coniiracy to drive in defiance of permitted hours," Lid the judge.
"But what you did was to allow yourself to be .trsuaded to join a conspiracy to get your mates T."
Bell, a £9-a-week farm worker, of Cunningarth, bbeytown (Cumb), was fined £10 (or a month's wrisonment). He was ordered to pay £10 costs. At the same court, five other drivers who orked with Bell were fined a total of £350 after Ley admitted the two charges. During the fouriy hearing, Mr. Rudolph Lyons, QC, alleged at all six were involved in twin conspiracies— wing more than the permitted hours and then iddling" their log sheets to cover it up.