Two men who used fraudulent Isle of Man driving licences to avoid speeding fines in the United Kingdom have failed to have their sentences reduced.

Andrew Robinson of Broadstone, Chipping Norton and Andrew Priest of Faulkners Lane, Mobberley, Cheshire last month admitted making a false declaration, and Priest pleaded guilty to two charges of perverting the course of justice.

Both were jailed, Priest for nine months and Robinson for three months, and this week they appealed to London’s Criminal Appeal Court to have those jail terms reduced.

But two appeal judges have now told the men their behaviour merited prison sentences.

Jason Roberts reports (text, below, from attached audio file):

Robinson and Priest applied for licences in the Isle of Man, using an address in Ramsey, and when they received them they ran up a large number of speeding fines.

The resident living at the address alerted police when tickets began arriving at his home in the post.

Judge James Stewart, QC, sitting at the Appeal Court with Mr Justice Treacey, said Priest boasted about the scam and also drove cars for his friends.

They said, after listening to the arguments, they rejected the appeal.

Priest and Robinson were told they were 'a serious series of offences, deserving and meriting imprisonment'.