REGARDING your remarks in your Opinion column about digital images not being allowed as evidence in court (LET, August 7), police services throughout England and Wales are in the process of installing thousands of speed cameras, a great majority of which will be digital, with direct links to computers.
Since digital film cannot be used as evidence in court for prosecuting 'criminals,' -- vandals, robbers and those involved in violent assaults, etc -- then, surely, digital camera evidence cannot be used to prosecute 'allegedly' speeding motorists.
With guaranteed convictions, fixed penalties, etc, for motorists and the more-than-evens chance of vandals, robbers, etc getting off, I expect that a new law will be brought out before someone challenges a 'digital' speed camera conviction, under the new European laws which we now come under.
And you can put money on it, that it won't be changed to allow digital film records to be used against serious criminals, but to allow digital 'photographs' to be used against motorists.
HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.
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