Speeding couple fined after saying they couldnt remember who was driving

By By Richard Savill Published: 1:51PM GMT 01 Mar 2010

Ian and Jayne Oliphant-Thompson Photo: SWNS

Ian and Jayne Oliphant-Thompson were both prosecuted after they told military it was "immoral" to go on asking who was pushing when they could not remember.

Exeter magistrates justice was told the car was clocked at 40mph in a 30mph zone. Photographic justification was incompetent to infer who was at the back of the circle and the couple, both 43, were asked to surprise military who was driving.

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The couple, who wrote a array of letters to reserve camera officials observant they were incompetent to remember, did not attend the justice hearing.

In their absence, they were each systematic to compensate a �525 fine, �100 costs, and a �15 plant surcharge. They were each additionally since 6 chastisement points, stand in the common number. The common excellent is �60.

Philip Alcock, prosecuting, said: "We cannot be certain who was pushing and they have not been means to assist.

"The answer they gave is not odd but the owners of a car that is used by majority drivers need to have a little kind of log.

"Even a tied together couple, if they often have use of the car and barter around pushing responsibilities, they need to have something in place to safeguard they know who was driving."

Mr Alcock pronounced the integrate had unsuccessful "to prove and insist since they are not means to" give an answer. On this occasion, it was since they were not in court, he added.

The couple, who have 3 children, were clocked a integrate of miles from their home on Mar 20, last year, and were sent a minute by the Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership.

Mrs Oliphant-Thompson, the purebred owners of the vehicle, wrote multiform letters in reply to contend she did not know that one of the integrate had committed the offence.

She wrote: "It competence have been me or competence have been my husband. We both expostulate the car and were both pushing it on that day.

"We know the motorist was one of the dual of us nonetheless we honestly cannot have any certain ID. To go on to ask us is erring and immoral."

Her husband, whose hobbies embody drifting helicopters and jets, additionally gave the same reply when asked in an additional minute that of them was driving.

Mr Oliphant-Thompson founded his firm, New Futures Group, eighteen years ago and reportedly charges some-more than �5,000 per day for his services.

The multi-million bruise commercial operation has bases in Devon and London specialising in formulating innovative ways of assisting organisations of all sizes grow and re-brand.

Mr Oliphant-Thompson, whose past clients embody Gap, Virgin, and Royal Bank of Scotland, once described himself as "the majority desirous man on earth".

The family live in a gated skill in Exton, nearby Exmouth, where the speeding corruption happened.