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A Vauxhall car being driven by the defendant was snapped doing 38mph in a 30mph limit

A Nottingham father tried to get off a speeding fine by claiming it was his dead father who was driving and not him. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Christopher Dixon sent a letter back to the enforcement team naming his deceased dad after they wrote to him saying they intended to prosecute him.

But when an investigation was launched and he was later shown the speed camera’s photograph, the 36-year-old, of Stapleford , admitted it was him but that he “could not remember the incident”.

Handing him a six-month jail term, suspended for 18 months, Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said: “What do you think your father would think of you? He would be spinning in his grave.

“Sometimes you do something t

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