Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Well if did, and that is the only Way he could, He’ll be in trouble.

Logic certainly does not dictate that, if he knew it was Cummings’s car he wouldn’t have to look it up.

If he thought it was Cummings but wanted confirmation, he would have had to abuse access to the DVLA database.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The witness states he saw a picture of Cummings car on the internet. That’s not illegal.

The DVLA public databases do not tell you the owner of a car, or the address of the registered keeper. It’s entirely useless for the purposes the witness describes. If you read the article he says he saw someone he thought was Dominic Cummings. The only tool at his disposal for confirming this was a number plate and looking for pictures of Dom outside his house on the internet.

Any journalist with the full number plate can walk past and see if it’s parked there.

None of this is illegal or changes the fact there’s an allegation that he was seen in breach of lockdown.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

If he did is the key words. There is no evidence he looked up the plates to find out who it was illegally.

Logic does indicate that. That is if he used the government website that I linked to. Please tell me what retired 70 year is going to have access to such information of finding out who someone is by their licence plate?

You have 4 options here

1 - He accessed information from a Police or DVLA computer at 70 year old and retired

2 - He accessed the government website to check for tax and mot

3 - He accessed the askmid website to check for insurance

4 - He got an image from the Internet

First one I think its safe to rule out. Second one is plausible. Third one is plausible but you shouldn't be doing it and the fourth one is plausible and seems to be what happened.

Can I ask why you seem to want to go for the least likely option?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

2 and 3 don’t tell him who owns the vehicle. A picture of Dominic Cummings next to it outside his house doesn't either, but it’d be incredible if his neighbour was driving about Durham with a lookalike. Again, the police could confirm this with the full number plate.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

5 - he’s giving it a large portion of BS.

Yes I’ll go for no.5

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

So are you not welcoming the police investigation and possibility that the witness gets prosecuted for wasting police time in the unlikely event you are right?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Ok, that's funny though as you seemed to think he was accessing information from the DVLA.

I don't know who he is so I'm not that bothered. I was responding to the quote Mick put on to someone saying isnt that illegal to look up someone's reg.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Please stop with the poxy licence plate.:banghead:

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I don’t know, nobody knows.


It is illegal to to obtain somebody’s details via their reg except For authorised reasons. It’s not illegal to look up reg’s on government websites to see if they Have tax or mot.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Which is what I basically said earlier. We've gone full circle for you to agree with me.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

For the love of god, it better. No wonder Paul closed the thread for the night...

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

It all started with this post, when you knew exactly what Mick was on about but wanted to start an unnecessary argument, as you did last night with me.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=254

You are a pedant of the highest degree and this will be my last response to you on the matter.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

So what’s the betting on more sightings coming out? Have the Guardian/Mirror got more cards up their sleeves? Aces or jokers obviously depending where you stand. The police investigation will give negative press coverage for a few days but another sighting would up the ante with Boris all in.

It could be like an appeal for a stolen car.

Have you seen a silver/black Range Rover in beauty spots around the country - if so call Crimestoppers on...

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Dominic Cummings is an out and out hypocrite but even if he’s broken the law I’d be surprised if there’s another law that says he must lose his job.

He is a political appointment. His value is political. So long as Boris calculates his political value remains greater than the political cost of keeping him on, he stays.

Meantime, this unending game of Where’s Dominic is somehow even more tedious than lockdown. Or maybe for some folks it does relieve the boredom. Who knows, who cares.

That’s my 2p anyway.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

THIS