"...And he ain't wearin' no clothes!" A former York policeman wept in the dock as he was jailed for leading police firearms officers on a car chase while naked at the wheel.
*boggle*
Andy Stuart Easterby, 30, drove his girlfriend’s Peugeot 307 with smoking tyres at 3am after having sex in the car, York Crown Court heard today.
Chris Smith, prosecuting, said that after twice going through No Entry signs, driving the wrong way down several one-way streets, and turning off his headlights to evade detection, Easterby was caught crouching behind a wheelie bin “sporting nothing but a pair of shoes and socks.”
It seems that naked driving and evading police is the new craze, though of course, as usual,
the Yanks have to go one better…
Judge Stephen Ashurst told the former Westfield Neighbourhood Police team member: “This is a difficult day, I know, for you. I have to take account not only of the strong personal mitigation in your case, but also the public interest in seeking to deter people from driving dangerously, particularly when they are pursued by police, where the sensible course is to stop.”
What ‘strong personal mitigation’..?
It was the second time he had broken the law - in 2009, he was banned from driving for a year after he was caught drink-driving.
Which seems to have been the incident which saw him booted off the force.
His barrister Chris Moran said: “Two times in his life he has done something reckless, stupid and impulsive and both times he has paid a considerable price for it.”
Well, yes. That’s what we call ‘consequences’, not ‘mitigation’…
His barrister Chris Moran said: "Two times in his life he has done something reckless, stupid and impulsive and both times he has paid a considerable price for it.”
ReplyDelete"To be caught once for doing something reckless, stupid and impulsive was unfortunate and to be caught twice was downright careless"...would automatically spill from the lips of a prosecutor with >3 brain cells.
... after twice going through No Entry signs, driving the wrong way...
ReplyDeleteIs this a list of traffic offences or a euphemism for what kind of sex they were having in the car?
Reading this story in it's glorious entirety makes me think that maybe they should check the car's exhaust pipe for evidence of rape...
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"...would automatically spill from the lips of a prosecutor with >3 brain cells."
ReplyDeleteYou'd think. Would we had some of those...
"Is this a list of traffic offences or a euphemism for what kind of sex they were having in the car?"
Heh!
"Reading this story in it's glorious entirety makes me think that maybe they should check the car's exhaust pipe for evidence of rape..."
It can happen!