Magna Carta defence fails for Fife man convicted of driving offences
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A Fife man has been convicted of driving offences and struggling violently with police at Kirkcaldy’s Justice of the Peace Court – despite putting up his own bizarre defence case.
Steve Higginson, 56, of Thornhill Drive, Kirkcaldy, denied driving without insurance and a valid MOT on January 15 this year as he claimed he did not need them, while he accused police officers of being “thugs” at the JP court on March 14, 2016.
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A comical courtroom exchange between a Fife man charged with numerous offences and a sheriff ended with the latter promising him the “remedy” he craves.
Steve Higginson’s bizarre behaviour sparked stifled laughter around Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court as he refused to answer straight questions posed to him via video link by Sheriff James Williamson.
Higginson, 56, of Thornhill Drive, Kirkcaldy, who was representing himself, failed to enter proper pleas to various charges read out to him and repeatedly uttered the phrase: “I am a living man, the blood flows, the flesh moves. I wish for remedy.”