'LOG SHEET CONSPIRATORS FINED
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?TRANSPORT Manager Wilson Glencross 1 and five lorry drivers were involved in "twin conspiracies" while their employer was off work ill, a court was told yesterday.
In the seven months Glencross was in charge of the haulage business in 1965 they set out to "systematically contravene laws designed to protect the public and themselves", Mr. Rudolph Lyons, QC, alleged at the adjourned Cumberland Assizes in Carlisle.
All six were employed by William Dockeray, Abbeytown, Cumberland. They drove grossly in excess of permitted hours then they fiddled their log sheets to cover it up and prevent the authorities from learning the truth, said Mr. Lyons.
Glencross, aged 47, of Kirkland Avenue, Wigton, Cumberland, and four of the drivers admitted to joint charges of conspiracy involving driving beyond permitted hours and falsifying records.
The other four are, 27-year-old Gordon Bainbridge, of Warwick Square, Carlisle; Joseph Kenny, aged 26, of Garthside, Biglands, Wigton; 31-year-old George Reynolds of Abbey House, Abbeytown, Cumberland and John Edward Turner, aged 26, of The Lymes, Dundraw, Wigton, Cumberland.
Part-time driver John James Bell, aged 25, of The Crofts, Sffioth, Cumberland, pleaded not guilty to both charges. He was employed as a farm worker by the Dockeray family.
Mr. F. S. Fay, QC, defending, said the five were not conspiring to defraud their employer. "It was not a clever conspiracy and the dri gained only £1 or £2 trip money", he said Mr. Justice Wrangham fined Glencross a t of £150 or a year's imprisonment and mil him to pay £25 costs.
The other four who pleaded guilty were fined a total of £50 (or six months') and orsl to pay £10 costs each.
The case against Bell is being continued.