Government official admits speed guns make mistakes
Published: 16th March 2006
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Reader's Rage: [25votes]

For the first time ever a civil servant has admitted in writing that speed guns do make mistakes. Geoffrey Biddulph, the senior Home Office civil servant in charge of policing Britain's roads wrote "We do accept in certain atypical circumstances a device may be capable of producing inaccurate readings."

The letter was sent to Barry Culshaw, a Hampshire based solicitor who specialises in defending motorists.

Our comment: This huge admission must be followed up by a withdrawal and review of speed guns otherwise 1000's more motorists will be criminalised based on evidence from an untrustworthy device.

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