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• by Mike Jewell Police were called to a public Inquiry when a Lancashire operator physically threatened a traffic examiner and a Deputy Traffic Commissioner after losing his three-vehicle Operator's Licence.
Burscough-based David Crompton now faces being disqualified from !wilding an 0licence by North West Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
As he was leaving the room Crompton pushed his finger threateningly into the face of traffic examiner Karen Farr, calling her obscene names and saying, he would "get her".
His brother, Gordon Cr Dmpton, who had been disqualified from holding an NOV licence for a yea, warned DTC Mark Himchcliffe to ''sleep wiih one eye open from now on'', adding that he knew Hinchcliffe's car rejstration number.
Earlier, Karen Farr had said that silent clinks in August 1999 and weighbridge tickets obtained from Edenfield Quarry had revealed that Gordon Crompton had falsified tachograph records on a number of occasions when driving for his brother.
Gordon Crompton told the DTC that his partner had miscarried at the beginning of August 1999 and was hospitalised throughout that month and he had been rushing to her bedside.
However, the Deputy TC pointed out that Crompton's partner had given birth to a healthy child at the beginning of April 2000, Revoking the licences, the Deputy IC slammed Crompton's excuse: "It is the sort of lie that any honourable man would be thoroughly ashamed of." He said it was a deceit calculated to evoke sympathy and compassion, while in fact David Crompton was complicit in his brother's conduct for a purely financial motive.