Thornton husband’s prank ends in court
Darren Stanley intended to move her Motability vehicle from one car park to another at a Cala Gran holiday park, Fleetwood but another car crashed into him. Stanley, 42, of Fleetwood Road North, Thornton, pleaded guilty to taking a motor vehicle without consent. He was sentenced to a two week curfew from 9pm to 7am and ordered to pay a £150 court charge with £60 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Prosecutor, Pam Smith, said police were called to the the holiday park where two cars had collided on August 21 at 2.30pm,
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Hide AdStanley admitted to an officer he had taken his wife’s Peugeot while she was asleep in the caravan during a break with family members.
Malcolm Cartwright, defending, said : “This is a bizarre case. He was moving the car to play a prank on his wife.”