Lie detector expert fined for lying

Bruce Burgess, a lie detector expert who has appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show, lied to avoid a speeding ticket.

A speed camera captured the 65-year-old, from Charles Babbage Close, Chessington, breaking the 30mph limit in Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, on August 31 this year. But Burgess told the police he was not diving the car at the time of the offence.

In the previous hearing, he pleaded guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice and has now been given a 24-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 180 hours of community service.

Burgess was fined £250 for the speeding offence and received three points on his driving licence which disqualifies him from driving for a year. In addition to this, he has to pay £1,250 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge and will face a hike in his car insurance premium.

PC Mick Gear, of the Hampshire Constabulary Safety Camera Partnership, said: "This started off as a speeding offence and has turned out to be a criminal matter which has involved a possible prison sentence with the possible loss of livelihood and all the embarrassment that goes with that.

"This could have been dealt with very easily and it is just not worth the risk so my advice is to put your hands up at the first opportunity."

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