A man has been cleared of speeding at 111mph, after officers from Police Scotland admitted the wrong man had been prosecuted.
Majed Hussain was finally cleared of any wrongdoing a year after the incident and while he was waiting in court minutes before he was due to be put on trial.
Mr Hussain had vehemently protested his innocence since first being quizzed about the speeding incident but was only cleared after the case had called seven times in court.
Despite having no connection with the car at all and not even fitting the description of the driver, the police and the Crown insisted on pursuing the case against him.
Mr Hussain, 40, from Glasgow, was scheduled to go on trial at Perth Sheriff Court for speeding and having a bald tyre yesterday morning.
However, in a highly unusual move, depute fiscal Stuart Richardson asked Mr Hussain’s lawyer for permission to show his client to the two police officers who stopped the vehicle in August last year.
When Mr Hussain was presented to the officers in the court corridor, they both immediately confirmed he was not the man who had been driving the BMW 116 Sport at high speed.
Mr Hussain who had carried out his own investigation in a bid to clear his name also produced a photograph of another man he believed may have been responsible. The officers said the photograph showing a considerably younger Asian man without any greying hair showed a person who could well have been the real driver.
Mr Hussain, of Riverview Drive, was called into the dock and Mr Richardson said: “It has been proven pretty conclusively this morning that this was not the gentleman who was responsible for the incident.
“His details had been provided by another person. In light of that, the Crown motion is to desert the case.”
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis formally dropped the case against Mr Hussain.
The car was clocked at 111mph on the M90 Inverkeithing to Perth road at Gairney Bank on August 25 2014. One of its tyres was bald.
A PNC check on the vehicle revealed that the registered keeper was a woman from the London area. The mystery driver said he was insured to drive it through his own policy and gave his details as Majed Hussain.