1/1 A SERIAL bad driver fled police at up to 100 mph before abandoning his car on a railway line near Norton, York Crown Court heard. Adam Virr, 34, raced down Commercial Street at 70mph just before midnight on October 20, Helen Towers, prosecuting, said. He tried to ram the pursuing police and turned off his headlines. His Vectra had cloned false number plates and he gave a false name when he was finally arrested. It was the latest in a career of bad driving that has seen him amass 12 convictions for dangerous driving. He has probably got the worst driving record I have ever seen, said the Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris.
A SERIAL bad driver fled police at up to 100 mph before abandoning his car on a railway line near Norton, York Crown Court heard. Adam Virr, 34, raced down Commercial Street at 70mph just before midnight on October 20, Helen Towers, prosecuting, said. He tried to ram the pursuing police and turned off his headlines. His Vectra had cloned false number plates and he gave a false name when he was finally arrested. It was the latest in a career of bad driving that has seen him amass 12 convictions for dangerous driving. He has probably got the worst driving record I have ever seen, said the Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris.
1/1 A SERIAL bad driver from Cleckheaton fled police at up to 100 mph before abandoning his car on a railway line in North Yorkshire, York Crown Court heard. Adam Virr, 34, raced down Commercial Street, Norton, near Malton, at 70mph just before midnight on October 20, Helen Towers, prosecuting, said. He tried to ram the pursuing police and turned off his headlights, the court heard. His Vectra was displaying cloned false number plates and he gave a false name when he was finally arrested. It was the latest in a career of bad driving that has seen him amass 12 convictions for dangerous driving.
Bradford Crown Court A PERVERT who positioned his phone in a ladies toilet to spy on women using the lavatory was labelled disgusting by his “violated” victims, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Dale Simpson, 32, who admitted four offences of voyeurism, was told by the judge, Recorder Anthony Hawks: “I don’t know what you thought you were doing. I can’t think of anything more disgusting. You must have had a perverted sexual motive.” Simpson, of Hammond Street, Fartown, Huddersfield, was caught after a woman in the Brighouse area spotted a light by the toilet brush and saw that it was a mobile phone recording her.
Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang. He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash converter and banker” for the organisation led by Rashid Ashraf (also known as Mohammed Rashid) who was jailed for 18 years.