The call centre worker, from Whitburn, South Tyneside, repeatedly drove up and down the car park with her friend holding on to a towel hanging out of the boot of her Nissan Juke. Watched by a handful of astonished shoppers, Adams sped up before the man in the wheelchair let go and was sent whizzing along with the momentum.
The prank, caught on the supermarket's security cameras, lasted several minutes. She appeared at Newcastle Crown Court and admitted dangerous driving. The court heard the friend did not require a wheelchair and had jumped in one owned by the store for customer use.
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Adams, 20, was disqualified from driving for two years, ordered to pay £1,369 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge. She was also given a four-month curfew and a 12-month community order. Judge Penny Moreland described the driving as "a piece of stupidity".
4 comments:
Seems rather harsh - there must be more to this than a prank that appears to have harmed nobody. Why a £60 victim surcharge - who's the victim?
The British government now add a 'surcharge' for every 'crime' committed.
The money goes to them.
My limited legal knowledge tells me that a supermarket car park is not a public road, so I wonder how anyone can be charged with dangerous driving.
The police and the government don't seem to concern themselves with legal technical niceties these days.
Not where there's people to be harassed and money to be extorted.
Britain is becoming more like a banana republic every day.
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