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A driver who paid a volunteer to take his speeding penalty points by an offer on Facebook has been jailed. (8 January 2013)

Date: 08/01/2013
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, A driver who paid a volunteer to take his speeding penalty points by an offer on Facebook has been jailed.

Scott Woodburn, 32, paid Daniel Baggaley, 26, £250 to admit his speeding offence so he could escape being banned from driving Highway officials said.

South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership said his five month sentence given to him last month would send a warning to anyone who would behave irresponsibly.

Woodburn, from Rotherham, was caught breaking the speed limit on the A61 Halifax Road in Sheffield on November 6, 2011. For the single offence he was expected to have points added to his licence, but the points for speeding could have crossed the 12 point maximum limit allowed and he could have been disqualified from driving.

So according to the Safer Road Partnership, he posted on Facebook asking someone to take the points in return for payment.

Baggaley, who had no driving licence, took up his offer and admitted the speeding offence and was paid £250 by Woodburn.

A spokesman for the partnership, which represents organisations including police, councils and the Highways Agency, said Woodburn refused to co-operate with the investigation and only pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice when the strength of evidence against him became clear. Police used forensic evidence to prove it was Woodburn driving, the spokesman said.

On top of the five-month prison sentence, Woodburn was disqualified from driving when he appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on December 19.

Daniel Baggaley from Sheffield received 11 week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and a 12 month supervision order when he admitted the same offence in June last year.

A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police confirmed that Woodburn had accumulated a number of points due to previous offences and would have crossed the 12 maximum penalties by the latest offence which could have led to his disqualification from driving.

The spokesman for South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership said this case would hopefully send a warning to anyone who would consider anything so irresponsible.

It was a crime to admit an offence on behalf of someone else and if someone was to approach anyone to admit an offence on their behalf they should inform the police.

Woodburn had no regard for anyone else and was prepared to drive at excessive speed and once caught had tried to bribe his way out of it by making someone else to take the blame.

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