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Death by dangerous driving charge is dropped after CPS offers no evidence

22nd November 2007
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AN IRISH-BASED lorry driver, who admitted falsifying tachograph records, was cleared at Mold Crown Court of causing death by dangerous driving.

Neville Low of Clonsilla, Dublin, had denied causing the death of John Owen. said to have been walking on the A55 trunk road in Anglesey during the early hours of 24 August this year.

Offering no evidence against Low, David Mainstone, acting, for the prosecution, said that having considered all the evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided there was no realistic prospect of a con viction.After Low had admitted the tachograph offences. Mainstone emphasised that they were not connected in any way with the unfortunate death.

Low admitted that on 20 and 21 August, before the fatal crash, he had made a number of false tacha graph records by claiming his journeys had started and ended at Holyhead when they had begun an finished in Dublin.

Sion ap Mihangel, defending, said Low was originally from South Africa, but had been living ant working in Dublin, and intended to return to South Africa once the proceedings against him had beer completed. He was a man of good character but dit have previous tachograph offences.

Recorder David Aubrey OC bailed Low to returr to court in three weeks' time for sentencing on the twc tachograph offences.


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