A mum fined for displaying the words "SLUT HO" on her car has told how she picked the number plate because she wanted to make people smile. Toni Brand said she realised life is short following her "amazing" son Ricky's suicide, adding: "Through his death I have learned to live and I have learned to smile and giggle."
The 47-year-old, of Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent, was ordered by a court to pay £344 after a police officer noticed her plate as she drove her white Volkswagen Scirocco on Nantgarw Hill. Toni believes "95% of the population" would not be offended by the joke and says the reaction from other drivers has been "amazing".
Ricky died in 2019 at the age of 21, weeks after the deaths of two of his friends. The "brilliant dad" hanged himself minutes after playing and dancing with his six-month-old son, his inquest heard.
