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Driver jailed for editing dashcam footage in bungled attempt to get out of speeding fine

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driver has been jailed after editing dashcam footage in an attempt to get out of a speeding fine. Oscar Thompson, 61, was jailed for 14 months after he was caught forging letters and a parking ticket, as well as doctoring the dashcam footage.

He was caught driving at 83mph on August 19, 2019, on the A331 in Hampshire, which had a limit of 70mph. When the speeding fine was sent to the vehicle’s elderly female owner, Thompson intercepted the letter and attempted to cover up his responsibility for the driving offence by replying in her name.

A Hampshire Police spokesperson said: “In the letter, he said she had been driving the vehicle that day but had been in the Royal Surrey County Hospital. “The letter said the owner was ‘dying of cancer’ and ‘because of my age I DO NOT drive on dual carriageways or motorways’.” The spokesman said that Thompson, of Elstead, Surrey, then produced two pieces of dashcam footage which he said showed that the vehicle had been at the hospital that day.

But this was shown to have been falsely dated as roadworks seen in the footage were not in place on the day of the speeding offence.

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