A DRIVER went to court yesterday to fight a speeding case using the same reason given by a Cleveland Police superintendent who escaped being prosecuted.
Peter Jennings, 57, from Stockton, received a £60 fixed penalty ticket after his van was caught by a police camera in the town.
He says that the photographs shows the driver had short dark hair and he is almost bald with silvery hair.
Mr Jennings says that like Detective Superintendent Adrian Roberts, head of Middlesbrough CID, he does not know who was driving but it was not him.
The van is also driven by his wife and two daughters.
Yesterday, he arrived at Teesside Magistrates' Court, in Middlesbrough, ready to fight the two charges of speeding on April 21 and failing to notify the police who the driver was.
The case was adjourned for a fortnight for the Crown Prosecution Service to send him the evidence.
Mr Jennings, a Middlesbrough Borough Council technician, of Dunelm Road, Stockton, said: "I am disappointed, but the issue, which is about my demand for justice, won't go away."
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