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The officer then said my insurance was not valid due to minor cosmetic items on my car.

- I received a no-insurance fixed penalty, but my insurer has now confirmed my policy was active at the time and not voided/cancelled/avoided retrospectively. I have disputed this

What are "Minor Cosmetic Items" on the car and have you declared these to your insurance when telling them the details of the allegation? You can dispute this charge by doing nothing and the matter will progress to a SJPN notice where you can tick the NG box and request a court hearing.

I refused a blood sample after panicking.
- I asked for legal advice but say it was not provided before important decisions were made.
- I was not interviewed.
- Around 6am, someone came to my cell and I say they pressured me about accepting the alleged cannabis. I did not feel I had proper legal advice at that point.

What do you mean by "accepting the alleged cannabis"? What did they offer for accepting it?

In summary, other than the COFP for the insurance & something else for a number plate offence, what have you actually been charged with? Have they charged you with driving while being above the specified drug limit?

It feels like you are giving us your side but not all the facts. What are the mods on the car? What was wrong with the plate? What did you tell your insurance about the stop for them to confirm you were covered?

When you say the insurance company apologised for it not auto-renewing, is that because it should have or because they should have made it clearer that it wouldn't?

What were they actually apologising for?

Is there a vehicle the same make, model and colour as yours in the first image? Is likely that having pinged you, the operator turned round to do something else, returned to his camera 9 seconds later and then thought oh, I'll get a closer image of that vehicle I just pinged, and captured yours instead having missed the faster vehicle going under the bridge?

Or is it more likely you reduced speed and changed lanes, all the while being recorded by the camera's video?

I'm not sure I would want to turn down a SAC or COFP based on that assumption. 

Yep, but you left out some detail again.

When I called the court and said everything had been sent to the wrong address they asked me to submit a mitigating statement. In the form I have to plead guilty or not guilty to the failure to identify driver offence.

Are you saying here that you have filled in a statutory declaration to say you were unaware of proceedings at the time, and the court have asked you to provide a G or NG plea with that statement?

What are the charges? Were you dual charged with both the FTF and the speeding charge at the time? All the relevant information you can provide around the original charge(s) and what the court initially sent you plus what they have sent you now, is meaningful.

A stat dec sets aside the original conviction and resets it back to summons stage. But you need a copy of the charge sheet before you can decide to plead guilty or not guilty. Although for expediency, it seems the courts like to bypass this and move straight onto plea.

But if you have both charges presented, then you can offer to plead guilty to the underlying speeding offence if they will drop the failure to furnish details charge.

When you say FPN, do you mean the Notice of Intended Prosecution or the subsequent follow up document inviting you to apart with £100 of you hard earned?

A common occurrence we find is that drivers confuse the two and having provided it on their driver submission, believe that it is done. The requirement is to also provide it when paying the COFP as well, either online or by post.

Edit. If it helps there is no FPN. There is a NIP, a S.172 requirement to provide driver details and a Conditional Offer of a Fixed Penalty (COFP).

If the subject of valid insurance and subsequent prosecution for a lack of is not in the OPs SJPN pack then there is no nest or hornets. It is better to deal with what is on the table rather than making up scenarios to suit your musings. 

The good Dr won't have been done 3 times for 22mph in a 20. Our main sample set is from here, but generally most of the outraged about receiving a ticket for speeding will invariably say they were only doing 10% or less over the speed limit.

In my local there are at least 3 blokes who swear blind a camera got them at 31mph in a 30. I tend to politely tell them they are talking out of their hoop.

The usual reason for these bollards is to stop vehicles from mounting the curb. Being that there is only one and it is in this location it may have been added in relation to the Dray delivering to the Pub.

Google Maps suggests it has been there since at least 2008.