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Bayles: sentence stands

30th July 1987, Page 18
30th July 1987
Page 18
Page 18, 30th July 1987 — Bayles: sentence stands
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• County Durham haulage contractor Geoffrey Bayles has lost his appeal against a six-month suspended jail sentence and 2100 costs for handling, forging and using a stolen vehicle tax licence.

"He was engaged in a course of quite deliberate dishonesty to defraud the revenue," said Justice Peter Pain in the Criminal Appeal Court in London.

The judge, in dismissing the appeal against sentence, said that in March last year police found. a lorry owned by Bayles displaying a stolen licence issued in

London and valued at 2566.

"He admitted he bought it for about 225 three weeks before from a man at a service station," the judge said.

"He saved himself about 2535. He admitted knowing it was stolen. It was already stamped and he wrote the vehicle's number on it."

Bayles was sentenced by Teesside Crown Court in January after pleading guilty. His counsel, James Harper, told the appeal court: "He has been made ill by this and his wife was off work sick."


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