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£5,000 trial for mother
of three 'who threw an apple core from car window'
DAVID WILKES
UK
Daily Mail
Thursday January 31, 2008
The litter police were swift to act after an apple core was
tossed on to a pavement from a parked car.
First they got a tip-off, then they traced the owner of the VW
Golf - mother-of-three Kate Badger - via its number plate and
sent her a £60 fine by post.
But then the case of the alleged phantom fruit-flinger ran into
trouble, and could end up costing taxpayers an estimated £5,000.
Miss Badger, 25, insists that she is not the culprit and has
triggered a legal battle that has already dogged her for 11 months.
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She so vehemently denies throwing the apple that she has asked
to stand trial before a jury at Crown Court in a bid to clear
her name rather than pay up - risking a maximum sentence of a
£20,000 fine or six months in prison if found guilty.
Branding the case against her "ridiculous", she claims
that she was in a shop at the time of the incident in Wolverhampton.
The apple, she says, must have been thrown by a peckish friend
who was waiting in the car.
Yesterday Miss Badger said: "I refused to pay the £60
fine because I didn't throw the core.
Full
article here.
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