Businessman used laser to jam speed cameras

A COMPANY director jammed speed cameras with a laser to escape fines while sticking his middle finger up at them, a court has heard.

Timothy Hill, 67, fitted a laser jammer to his Range Rover, which meant that his speed came up blank.

Hill drove past mobile speed camera vans on the A19 near Easingwold, Thirsk and Crathorne three times in December and each time he was photographed gesturing to them with his middle finger. But his actions were spotted by police, who noted his personalised registration plate.

When officers traced the vehicle to Hill’s home in the Yorkshire Dales village of Grassington, the businessman threw the device in a river that runs by his home.

Hill appeared at Teesside Crown Court where he was jailed for eight months and banned from driving for a year for perverting the course of justice.