OAP jailed after trying to dodge speeding fine by setting up fake website of firm he claimed to have sold car to

A PENSIONER caught speeding spent a year trying to avoid the penalty by setting up a fake car sales company.

Gordon Lewis, 74, claimed he had sold his car two days before the ticket was issued, with the pensioner creating a bundle of documents, including a sales receipt, to avoid the £60 speeding fine.

As part of his ploy, Lewis even set up a website for the company, sending police fake paperwork and other documentation to suggest the company was real.

But the senior's actions were slammed as "stupid" by the judge, with the 74-year-old found guilty of tending or intending to pervert the course of justice between September 2013 and July 2014.

He was sentenced to eight months in prison.

Judge Simon Carr sentenced the senior to jail at Truro Crown Court, saying: "You went to extraordinary lengths to challenge your speeding conviction when the normal punishment would have been a modest fine and three points on your licence.

"Instead you took on a campaign to mislead the court and damage the justice system.

"This was bogus from the beginning to the end. It is an exceptional case and extraordinary as to the lengths you went to try and challenge the justice system."

The court heard that Lewis, of Camborne, Cornwall, had been caught speeding on September 12, 2013.

But in challenging the fine, Lewis told authorities he had sold the car two days before through the company Central Car Centre.