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...