Driver Sentenced Via Mobile Phone

Aftab Ahmed of Bury St Edmunds became the first person to be sentenced over a mobile phone on Wednesday (1st Feb 2005).

Aftab was on his way to Ipswich Crown Court to be sentenced for a bankruptcy offence, but he was stuck in traffic and late.

Judge Caroline Ludlow didn't want to delay the case and increase costs, so with Aftab's lawyers consent, she fined him 140 hours of community service with 750 pounds costs.

The BBC has more details on the case, Phone call sentence for offender.