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The Government has introduced a £15 surcharge for persistent offenders. This fee will not go towards victims associated with the persistent crime, but a pot used mainly to appoint dozens of domestic violence counsellors to help bring alleged cases of abuse to court.

We support initiatives that help victims of crime, and abuse but fully oppose the penalisation of motorists when the perpetrators of those crimes should be the ones paying this Domestic Violence surcharge.

A motorist is an easy target to be labelled a persistent criminal, who could inadvertently clock up multiple offences in a very short distance or time frame due to speed camera proliferation and increased motoring offence legislation.

Any charges payable by motoring offences should directly support victims of motoring crimes, and improvements in road safety.

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David R Thomas, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• mairi mackechnie
• John Leverton
• invergordon
• Tony Cruickshank
• John Dean
• Keith Wilkinson
• Michael Hahn
• Gwyn Pritchard-Williams
• Jeff Botterill
• damien barnett
• Keith Scarles
• andrew wright
• Christian Duggan
• Thomas S Savage
• Gigliola Saavge
• Robert J C Aldridge
• Nicholas Roberts
• John Willock
• tony gowland
• simon kelsey
• Peter Hatch
• R.J.McKinney
• alexander james taylor
• Adrian Godfrey
• Derek Saunders-Jones
• Mark Cousins
• Petra Jackson
• fay irwin
• Gary Jones
• paul newton
• Aaron
• Steven David Wall
• kirsten johnstone
• Alan Johnston
• Rushanthan Thevaraju
• David John Norton
• Michael Wharton
• Glynn Banks
• brian squire
• Ben Mellor
• darren butler
• William Murphy
• Richard Bustard
• kathleen saravia
• Marc Stavert
• Andrea Holliday
• Jacqui Sherrington
• John Littler
• Robert Gray
• Mary Gray
• alan martin
• Mary McElwaine
• lorraine clarke
• Dave Irwin
• steve gouldstone
• Bet Chapman
• Ian Horsfall
• Alan Martin
• Irene McGinley
• Tony Jones
• Nicholas Street
• Chris Slaymaker
• Dick King
• N King
• S King
• J Jones
• ALAN WATT (This isn't the way British Justice works)
• Sidney Webb
• Steve Bassett
• alex drohan
• William Francis
• Stephen Francis Roberts
• Andrew Greig
• Patrick Best
• michael dexter
• Dorian Morris
• Pete Bevan
• dean layen
• chris garrett
• neil walker
• B Thurlow
• L Pearce
• Paul Greenwood
• andrew crayford
• Laurence Edgar
• Nick Hardie
• P Chandler
• Nick Barton
• arthur grimshaw
• David Hoare
• Paul Coxwell
• Jane Bushell
• Raj Chauhan
• john kehoe
• gary trotter
• Stuart Leather
• Don Cross
• Colin Burbidge
• Simon Lingard