A recruitment consultant has received a suspended jail sentence after being caught lying about a speeding offence.
Nitasha Sahota, 31, claimed a friend from India had been at the wheel at the time but a police investigation proved she had given a false account.
Sahota previously admitted doing an act intended to pervert the course of justice. She was given a four month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £425 costs.
Birmingham Crown Court heard her BMW was captured on camera travelling at 52mph on a road with a 40mph limit on April 26 last year.
Sahota was sent a notice of intended prosecution but she claimed a close family friend had been the driver and had since returned to India. She claimed she had contacted the person but they had stopped returning her emails. But an officer subsequently made a computer check and could not find any evidence of someone with her friend's name having entered or left the UK in the last five years.
Aimee Parkes, prosecuting, said the officer also compared the picture taken by the camera and the one on Sahota's driving licence and concluded they were the same person. She said the consultant was interviewed and, after initially maintaining her lie, she eventually admitted her guilt.
He said that there had been a recent high profile case where the circumstances had been similar involving a MP, who had been given a short prison sentence following a trial.
But he said the difference in Sahota's case was that she had pleaded guilty.
She had nominated a family friend and it was not a case of picking someone out at random.
Mr Houldcroft said Sahota had also done charity work in the past.
