Woman Fakes Death to Avoid Paying Speeding Ticket

A Welsh woman has drawn a suspended jail sentence for faking her own death in order to avoid going to court for a speeding ticket.

Glenda Askew, 47, of Swansea, was clocked driving 11 miles over the city speed limit in March 2006 and received a notice from police, The BBC reports.

Askew ignored the letter, but when a summons to court arrived, she decided she had better take action.

Prosecutor Bryn Hurford says Askew filled out the summons in the name of her daughter, Tracey Roberts, stating that her mother would not be able to come to court because she had died in a car accident.