This week saw police boss Caroline Henry set foot in a court room as a defendant as she was sentenced after being clocked speeding five times. The 52 year old, from Giltbrook, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire, faced a district judge at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday, July 18, after pleading guilty to speeding five times in the county.
She received a hefty fine amounting to £2,450, prosecution costs, a victim surcharge of £190, and 15 penalty points on her licence, as well as a six-month driving ban. Afterwards she gave an interview to Nottinghamshire Live about the personal trauma she was enduring at the time. Read the full story here
In a separate case robber Paul McDonald, 48, of Mary's Court, off Duke Street, in Derby, was sentenced after he tried to raid a shop armed with a cardboard toilet roll tube. A frightened teenage cashier, believing McDonald was gripping a deadly firearm, immediately handed over a small amount of cash to him.
