Tuesday 29 October 2013

If This Is ‘An Improvement’….

…what on earth would ‘a decline’ look like?
Kurt Swindlehurst, 21, who had no insurance, or licence, clocked up 60mph in quiet residential Burnley streets, shot across a main road without stopping, and almost hit a wall when he finally abandoned the Volkswagon Golf, and made off. Officers in pursuit lost the car in a cloud of smoke as it accelerated away from them in the night-time incident on June 10.
Swindlehurst, who has 63 offences on his record, has breached court orders 20 times, but was said to be complying with his most recent sentence, and was growing up, and not breaking the law as much, Burnley Crown Court was told.
/facepalm
He had served time on remand for the offences and had been on a curfew for 65 days, the equivalent of a 10-month sentence.
A judge gave him a chance to show he was trying to go on the straight and narrow and didn’t jail him.
No surprises that it was our old friend, Judge Beverley Lunt…
Philip Holden, for Swindlehurst, said he had ‘quite a dreadful record’, but it had trailed off in the last couple of years and showed a marked improvement.
Apart from this little incident, you mean? And, presumably, all the ones they didn't catch him doing...

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

'Kurt' - beautiful British name. I can't help but wonder if it is a misspelling, surely there shouled be a 'C' and and 'N' instead of...well, you get it.

The Cowboy Online said...

I'm surprised you didn't spot it Julie, but he was driving what? A Volkswagon Golf? ;)

Joe Public said...

"No surprises that it was our old friend, Judge Beverley Lunt… ……”

Is that a typo????????

Anonymous said...

I feel a shariah moment coming over me which would ensure he could never open a car door again let alone drive one...

Fidel Cuntstruck said...

It reminds me of the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme ...

Judge Beverly Lunt
Was a silly old .... woman
And a silly old woman was she ...

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX could never open a car door again let alone drive one...XX

You DRIVE car doors??!!??

JuliaM said...

"... but he was driving what? A Volkswagon Golf? ;)"

Heh!

"Judge Beverly Lunt
Was a silly old .... woman
And a silly old woman was she .."


:D