MOTs: Purposes for testing standing want solicitor’s letter
A person who used cast solicitors’ letters to safe MOT storage functions has acquired a suspended jail sentence for offering false data.
This was the primary ever prosecution for offering fraudulent solicitors’ letters used as a part of an MOT storage utility.
Such letters are one of many supporting paperwork required to open or change an MOT take a look at station. They supply proof that the applicant both owns the land or that they’ve a licence to occupy, a rental settlement or an enforceable lease with the landowner for the premises.
Thomas Richard Woods was convicted of three expenses of offering counterfeit solicitors’ letters to assist safe MOT testing station standing.
A decide at Newport Crown Court docket gave him a custodial sentence of 18 months in respect of every offence to run concurrently, suspended for 18 months due to his earlier good character and private circumstances.
He was additionally ordered to hold out unpaid work of 220 hours, pay prosecution prices of £4,736 along with a sufferer surcharge of £149.
The decide discovered his actions brought about hurt to his employer, its purchasers, the Driver and Automobile Requirements Company (DVSA) – which carried out the investigation – and two corporations of solicitors.
Mr Woods had undermined each the MOT system and confidence in solicitors, the decide stated.
Mr Woods was a gross sales supervisor at Oakmain Ltd, an organization specialising within the set up and repair of storage gear primarily for unbiased garages and MOT stations.
The corporate additionally accomplished the MOT station utility type on behalf of shoppers.
The DVSA approves centres and testers to hold out MOT checks and screens them to make sure they’re carried out to the required normal.
Its director of enforcement, Marian Kitson, stated: “Purposes to be an MOT testing station are made in good religion by the candidates involved.
“Motorists have to really feel assured they will depend on MOT testing stations to hold out any vital work and garages utilizing skilled companies ought to anticipate the service to be reputable.”
