PCSO guilty of using invalid car insurance
21.10.09
A COLCHESTER the coppers community support officer faces a possible jail sentence after intentionally deceiving his colleagues.
Daniel Le Moine, 22, of Buckfast Avenue, Walton, was convicted of using an insurance certificate with resolved to deceive.
A jury, at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday, reached a unanimous contrite verdict Judge Rodger Hay ward Smith said he had not
ruled out a custodial decree.
Le Moine, who is dyslexic, was involved in a car crash, in February 2008, when he was driving without insurance.
He told the long arm of the law he was insured and, in March, took an insurance certificate, which he knew was invalid, to a police place.
Jane Oldfield, defending, had told the court Le Moine’s condition “really affects his ability to take things in and his ability to remember it”.
She said this explained why he did not inform of he was not insured, despite speaking to insurance company Direct Line less than a week earlier. Ms Oldfield also gave his requisite as the main
reason “why he would rely on what his mother told him. If she says it is OK, he thinks it is OK”.
Source: Daily Gazette