The Snitch: Olympian Jane Flemming in court on speeding charge
Olympic athlete Jane Flemming was famous for going fast. This month, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist will face court for going just a little bit too fast.
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In her days an Olympian Jane Flemming was famous for going fast. This month, Flemming is listed to face Sutherland Local Court for going just a little bit too fast.
The 56-year-old who won gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games is listed to face the court on May 20 to answer to an offence listed as: speeding less than 10km/h over the limit in a school zone.
The former track and field athlete was pinged by a camera on December 18.
So we contacted Ms Flemming via message on Instagram to see how she was going to play it in court.
It turns out that Ms Flemming is also Olympic-quick at dishing out a spray via text.
Take it away Jane.
“Hi, wow you. Just be trawling through court lists. Go you,” Ms Flemming wrote.
“It is a ridiculous situation where I was driving through a school zone on (December) 18 and despite the fact that all students in that zone actually finished school two days before … they still want to apply the fine and points.
“Apparently on (the) NSW Education website it states that the term went ’till the 18th,” Ms Flemming continued. “What waste of government resources. Rant over. Cheers, Jane.”
Well, in our defence, it’s not front page news.
But good luck, though.
THE NOT SO HEAVY-HANDED CRIM
Following last week’s story about crime boss Bassam Hamzy’s failed plan to start a Supermax fight club, where the inmates would duke it out in the octagon, we received some interesting feedback.
In particular, much of it related to which inmate would win and which of them actually know how to fight.
But one memorable piece of correspondence actually isolated a physical feature on one universally feared inmate, which our source believed would actually diminish your opinion of his fighting ability.
“If you’ve ever got up close to him you’d notice that he’s got hands the size of a four-year-old — they’re tiny,” our source said. “You can’t fight with toddler’s hands, that’s why he always needed a weapon on the outside.”
We have decided not to reveal their identity because, while the person in question is in jail for decades for seriously violent crimes, it’s still probably not long enough for Snitch to be revealing that sort of information and sleeping soundly at night.
We received feedback from a representative of one feared inmate, who cannot legally be named, but reckons he would be champion of Supermax.
And, given our interactions with him prior to him being locked up, he’s probably right.
We’re told his daily routine currently includes punching out 700 to 1000 push-ups in 45 minutes.
SPAROS CALLS IN THE HEAVYWEIGHTS
When Luke “Fatboy” Sparos appeared in court this week charged with the attempted murder of a gangster, he had an unexpected accessory: a set of lawyers.
The last time Sparos set foot in a courtroom, he was defending himself in the NSW Supreme Court against a team of top prosecuting lawyers — and actually won his own acquittal, despite having no legal training.
From what we saw, Sparos got into the theatrics of court.
At one point he paused for effect and said, “wah, wah, wah, waaaah”, imitating the sound made when a contestant lands on the bankrupt panel on the TV game show Wheel Of Fortune, when he believed he had caught a witness in a lie.
So it came as some surprise when a barrister and solicitor turned up at court this time around.
POLICE STRIKE OVER ROSTER
Professional Standards Command (PSC) officers walked out of their building at Homebush for a one-hour strike on Tuesday. The action is over the moving from a seven-day to a five-day roster, with more strikes expected.
“It’ll mean investigations into corruption and critical incidents only become Monday to Friday jobs,” one insider said.
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