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A driver who faked CCTV images to avoid a speeding fine but was caught after police examined the shadows in his forged footage has narrowly avoided jail. Roger Moore, 44, was snapped doing 51mph in a 40mph zone as he returned a courtesy car to a garage in Plymouth, Devon, at 12pm on February, 22, 2011.
But in July 2011 as legal proceedings against him were underway he produced CCTV of his own car outside his house - apparently taken at 10.37am on the day of the offence.
He then claimed the film proved he had already taken the Peugeot 206 loan car back when it was filmed speeding - and said a garage worker must have been the guilty driver. Father-of-three Moore submitted the false footage on a DVD to a court and an investigating police officer in a bid to clear his name.
But police who were suspicious of the footage then waited and revisited Moore’s house a year to the date of the offence in February 2012. They took their own images of how his house would have looked at the time of year - and then went back again and got more footage in July 2012.
Their photos showed the shadows on Moore’s CCTV were in the wrong place meaning his film was actually shot in summer 2011 and not February 2011 as he claimed.
They also found a log which suggested the date stamp had been altered.
Prosecuting, David Gittins said police experts spent time analysing CCTV footage from Moore’s home, submitted by the defendant at court. But the experts found inconsistencies.
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