Tragedies save haulier
1st October 1998, Page 11
1st October 1998
Page 11
Page 11, 1st October 1998
— Tragedies save haulier
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• A transport firm boss caught illegally running a lorry was shown mercy by magistrates after they heard his family had been struck by a series of tragedies—including murder.
Mark Purnell, who trades under the same name at Astonin-Makerfield, Wigan, was given a 12-month conditional discharge with £65 costs by West Bromwich magistrates after pleading guilty to not hay ing an 0-licence for one of his lorries. Purnell's 38-tonner was stopped at the M6 lorry park at Perry Barr, Birmingham on 16 January this year.
In a letter to the court Purnell said: "During the past 12 months my brother has been murdered, my cousin and his wife killed in a car crash and my transport manager, who was my brother-in-law, dropped dead from a heart attack."