"It really wasn't worth it, was it?" "No, not really."
Nothing could have summed up the day of results at Stockport Magistrates Court on Friday, August 19 better than these final words between the chair of the bench Rachel Medcalf and one of several motorists suspected of using a NIP farm to evade justice for a driving offence. Greater Manchester Police identified 126 vehicle keepers who had failed to give them the correct details of people suspected of driving offences, with their Notice of Intended Prosecutions (NIP) coming back linked to the same few addresses.
Most of these people were trying to dodge relatively minor offences, speeding, running a red light, crimes that typically carry up to three penalty points on your licence. Their efforts have instead landed them in the sticky situation where they face a fine of a few hundred pounds and six points on their licence - enough to see new drivers have their licence revoked.
