MR MIKADO MAGISTRATE
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Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew how to write a thundering good line. Witness this corker from The Dancing Men:
"It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law." Has that "magnificent fair play' outlived messrs Holmes, Watson and Lestrade?
On page 16 of this week's issue is a report of a police campaign on the M6 which netted 10 drivers—nine Irish and one Portuguese— for tachograph offences. Crewe magistrates duly found them guilty and fined them over 2100 apiece Regardless of whether that level of fine will act as a deterrent, compare their fate with that of the Spanish driver brought before Coventry magistrates last week for a similar offence.