LATE last year, Australian Muslim and serial driving offender Carnita Matthews, 46, was sentenced to six months in prison for falsely claiming that a highway patrol officer was a racist who attempted to deburqa-ise her.
Matthews made a written complaint against the young officer, who had fined her for failing to properly display her provisional driver’s plates, but video footage exposed her allegations as a patently false.
Matthews, from Woodbine, in Sydney’s southwest, immediately appealed against the sentence, and this week walked free after a judge ruled that her identity could not be proven. [The Freethinker] Read more
