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The Times
Banned businessman told police his chauffeur was driving Rolls-Royce
John Simpson, Crime Correspondent
Tuesday March 10 2020, 5.00pm, The Times
Maurice Sines claimed that his driver was at the wheel of his £400,000 Rolls-Royce but his lie was exposed by CCTV
A married businessman who lied to police about ordering a chauffeur to carry on driving his £400,000 Rolls-Royce because he was having sex in the back with another woman has been spared jail.
Maurice “Fred” Sines, 57, led officers on a wild chase from the golf tournament to the nearby Wentworth Estate before abandoning the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Sines, who owns a string of caravan parks, narrowly avoided a head-on collision as his car careered along the wrong side of the road and went the wrong way around a roundabout at speeds of up to 60mph on 30mph roads.
Maurice Sines told police that he was with “a bird in the back” of the car
Officers called off the chase due to problems with radio communications but eventually caught up with Sines, who told them that he had ordered his chauffeur not to stop because he had “a bird in the back”. He added that he had recently got back together with his wife.
However, when he appeared at Guildford crown court, he was confronted with CCTV that showed him getting into the driver’s seat alone. He admitted driving while disqualified and changed his plea to guilty.
Sines, who has been identified by Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau as being linked to an organised crime network, received an eight-month jail sentence suspended for two years. He had faced up to two years behind bars following the incident in Virginia Water, Surrey in May 2018.
The court was told that there had been complaints about his behaviour earlier in the day and police had arrived at the tournament to see him leaving.
Judge Robert Fraser said that the offence passed the custody threshold but that he had been persuaded to suspend the sentence in part by the admission of guilt and display of remorse. He also handed him a two-year driving ban, a three-month curfew on an electronic tag and ordered him to pay a £5,000 penalty and £4,200 in court costs.
“You have been remarkably foolish for somebody of your years in life and experiences in life to have done what you did — that is an act of extreme foolhardiness and danger to other road users,” the judge said.
Sines confirmed he no longer lived in the mansion estate, previously home to Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, golfer Thomas Bjorn, and The Sultan of Brunei, saying he had moved to a mobile home at his daughter’s house in Old Windsor, Berkshire.
He expressed remorse and explained that he “panicked” and fled from officers because of an investigation into his finances by HMRC and the police.
The investigation, in which officers were said to be seeking to confiscate millions of pounds, has now ended.
He said: “I really regret what I’ve done and embarrassed myself. I now live in a mobile home next to my daughter and grandson to help with the illness of my grandson. I saw was a police car with the sirens on behind me, I panicked. I was under a lot of pressure over the last year from police and HMRC. They came to my house and arrested me and my family and wanted £50 million. The stress was very, very bad — mentally, and healthily.”
In 2011, Sines was banned from horseracing for 14 years after being found guilty by the British Horseracing Authority of fixing several races in 2009.
Banned businessman told police his chauffeur was driving Rolls-Royce
John Simpson, Crime Correspondent
Tuesday March 10 2020, 5.00pm, The Times
Maurice Sines claimed that his driver was at the wheel of his £400,000 Rolls-Royce but his lie was exposed by CCTV
A married businessman who lied to police about ordering a chauffeur to carry on driving his £400,000 Rolls-Royce because he was having sex in the back with another woman has been spared jail.
Maurice “Fred” Sines, 57, led officers on a wild chase from the golf tournament to the nearby Wentworth Estate before abandoning the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Sines, who owns a string of caravan parks, narrowly avoided a head-on collision as his car careered along the wrong side of the road and went the wrong way around a roundabout at speeds of up to 60mph on 30mph roads.
Maurice Sines told police that he was with “a bird in the back” of the car
Officers called off the chase due to problems with radio communications but eventually caught up with Sines, who told them that he had ordered his chauffeur not to stop because he had “a bird in the back”. He added that he had recently got back together with his wife.
However, when he appeared at Guildford crown court, he was confronted with CCTV that showed him getting into the driver’s seat alone. He admitted driving while disqualified and changed his plea to guilty.
Sines, who has been identified by Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau as being linked to an organised crime network, received an eight-month jail sentence suspended for two years. He had faced up to two years behind bars following the incident in Virginia Water, Surrey in May 2018.
The court was told that there had been complaints about his behaviour earlier in the day and police had arrived at the tournament to see him leaving.
Judge Robert Fraser said that the offence passed the custody threshold but that he had been persuaded to suspend the sentence in part by the admission of guilt and display of remorse. He also handed him a two-year driving ban, a three-month curfew on an electronic tag and ordered him to pay a £5,000 penalty and £4,200 in court costs.
“You have been remarkably foolish for somebody of your years in life and experiences in life to have done what you did — that is an act of extreme foolhardiness and danger to other road users,” the judge said.
Sines confirmed he no longer lived in the mansion estate, previously home to Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, golfer Thomas Bjorn, and The Sultan of Brunei, saying he had moved to a mobile home at his daughter’s house in Old Windsor, Berkshire.
He expressed remorse and explained that he “panicked” and fled from officers because of an investigation into his finances by HMRC and the police.
The investigation, in which officers were said to be seeking to confiscate millions of pounds, has now ended.
He said: “I really regret what I’ve done and embarrassed myself. I now live in a mobile home next to my daughter and grandson to help with the illness of my grandson. I saw was a police car with the sirens on behind me, I panicked. I was under a lot of pressure over the last year from police and HMRC. They came to my house and arrested me and my family and wanted £50 million. The stress was very, very bad — mentally, and healthily.”
In 2011, Sines was banned from horseracing for 14 years after being found guilty by the British Horseracing Authority of fixing several races in 2009.
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