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Driver caught smoking coughs up £185
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A NORTH WALES driver who smoked a cigarette in his truck cab has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £185 for smoking in the workplace in one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the country.
Leonard King of Kinmel Bay pleaded guilty to the offence by letter before the Llandudno magistrates but offered no mitigation.
Stuart Dunn, prosecuting for Conwy Council, said Kinghad parked his truck on the promenade at Colwyn Bay in June when he was spotted flicking his cigarette butt out of the window by Conwy Council dog warden David Lightfoot. Lightfoot noted his registration number and reported it. He had not spoken to A costly cigarette made more expensive by the King because he had driven away.
failure to pay the fixed penalty notice. I King was then traced to a carrier firm in Rhyl. King had been offered a £75 fixed penalty for smoking illegally in his cab, deemed to be his workplace, said Dunn, and one for £75 for depositing litter by throwing the cigarette stub out of the window. He paid the litter fixed penalty but did not pay the one for smoking and a prosecution was mounted.
The magistrates fined King £75 and ordered him to pay £30 investigative costs, £65 legal costs, and the £15 victim surcharge.