[timwilky]

If Wade Dooley was able to get just an official reprimand after knocking down a kid whilst drunk, I am sure this would have been another buried offence a don't do it again letter.

The issue here was not the MOT, it was his actions afterwards, the attempted perverting of the course of justice, the bullying of a junior into committing an offence etc.

Rules appear to dictate that those who abuse a position of trust must fall harder than others who commit the same offence.

He should have lost his job. It is one thing to be a copper who forgot to sort out his MOT, but this guy was corrupt. OK not brown evelope corrupt, but certainly morally corrupt and I am sure his force will be glad to see the back of him.

I don't see prison achieving anything. Better others more deserving take his place. I would rather have seen him on community service doing something of value to the public, something he should have been doing in his job.