users to carry their driving licences yesterday.

Such a law would put a stop to the problem of motorists giving false names and addresses to Police, the Hon. Sir James Astwood said in the Supreme Court.

His comments came after hearing the case of a Warwick teenager forced to go to Supreme Court in a desperate attempt to avoid being locked up because of an offence he did not commit.

Burnell Jeffries, 18, claimed someone had given his name to Police when stopped for speeding at 74 k.p.h. early last year.

That person then pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court, he said, and paid the $250 fine in an effort to get away with the lie.

The matter would have remained swept under the carpet if Jeffries himself had not been caught speeding several months later.

Jeffries was stunned after admitting the charge in Magistrates' Court to hera he had a previous conviction: speeding at 74 k.p.h.

Even though he insisted he had no past speeding convictions, the Magistrate fined him and took him off the road.

Jeffries appealed the decision to Supreme Court.

But Sir James told Jeffries yesterday he had no choice but to throw out the appeal because it was the 18-year-old's position that he had never personally been convicted of the speeding offence.

His only advice to the teenager was to take his driver's licence to Magistrates' Court and explain the situation to the Magistrate.

Jeffries was due in Magistrates' Court later that morning to face three traffic offences including dangerous driving and driving while disqualified, for which he faced far more serious penalties because of his alleged conviction.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Peter Giles conceded he could not prove who had actually been ticketed and suggested to the Wor. John Judge that the speeding charge not be taken into account. Mr. Judge agreed.

The confusion deepened when Mr. Judge heard that Jeffries had himself given a false name to Police when stopped for driving in a manner dangerous on May 27.

Jeffries led Police on a high speed chase on Middle Road in Warwick. He was finally stopped and was arrested for dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to the officers.

Mr. Judge fined him a total of $925 and put him off the road for 18 months adding: "I wonder why on earth you chose to call yourself another name after all this!''