Following the police raid in February 1993, and the stance being taken by my PPI insurers, I felt I had little alternative other than risk a return to racing, against all the medical and legal advice I was being given. To me it was pure logic… my natural “If and then” autistic way of thinking.
At the time I had no idea that my way of processing information and making decisions was different to a neurotypical person whose brain functions, processes information, and behaves in ways considered typical or standard… Anyway, for me it was just a short term fix so I could pay the mortgage and fix the cash flow crisis.
At the time I thought the Metropolitan Police would realize they’d made a massive mistake within months. Anyway, I was no longer insured, so I’d be racing entirely at my risk… what was the problem?
What I hadn’t considered was that I was now playing directly into the hands of the Metropolitan Police and CPS argument that I couldn’t be injured!
With hindsight it was a bad decision… something a neurotypical Jury was never going to understand!
John Bartlett 