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Ex-jockey speeding case dismissed

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon
The speeding case against the former jockey was dismissed by magistrates

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon has been cleared of speeding charges.

Mr Fallon, 43, of Newmarket, Suffolk, was accused of failing to inform police who was driving his BMW car when it was caught going at 40mph in a 30mph zone.

His lawyer, Warren Bergson of motoringsolicitors .com told Newmarket magistrates that speeding ticket records could not be relied on.

Magistrates concluded there were discrepancies in the system used to record speeding tickets and dismissed the case.

Prosecutor Katie Tyndall said Mr Fallon had failed to tell police within a required period who was driving his car when it triggered a speed camera in Milton Road, Cambridge, on 16 May last year.

"I am seeking to challenge the culture of relying upon computers," Mr Bergson told the court.

He argued that the record-keeping system at the police ticket office was fallible and therefore it could not be certain that the former jockey had not responded within the period.

He also said there were errors in paperwork relating to the case, including a document which carried a wrong date.

"We have decided that in this particular case we are not satisfied with the reliability of the central ticket office's records because there have been shown to be some discrepancies," magistrates' chairman Kathy Bradney told Mr Fallon.

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