A YELVERTON publican has been jailed for four months for attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving the name of his father as being the driver of his car when it had been caught on speed cameras. Last Friday, landlord of the Devon Tors, Vasille Georgiou, was jailed by Plymouth Crown Court after a two-year police investigation. Judge, Recorder Stephen Parish, said: 'On three occasions over a period of seven years you attempted to pervert and in fact did pervert the course of public justice by giving the name of your father in Cyprus, Stavros Georgiou, as being the driver of your car which had been caught on speed cameras — on one occasion doing 104mph.' The judge said on each occasion someone sent a form back from Cyprus confirming that Stavros had been the driver of the speeding car which he said was a 'conspiracy to defeat public justice'. But the judge said the 48-year-old defendant from Plymouth, Devon, was thwarted by MPC David Williams who 'smelt a rat' and stopped the defendant in his tracks after a two-year long inquiry. Prosecutor Alistair Verheijen said Mr Georgiou was first caught on a speed camera on the A38 in August 2005 doing 104mph in a Renault Clio Sport near the Devonport Interchange. But when police wrote to him as the registered keeper to ask him who was driving with a view to prosecution, Mr Georgiou said it was his father, who at that point, was still alive. The Crown said because the 'driver' was a foreign national living in Cyprus, the file was closed. But then in January 2012, on the A374 in Plymouth, Mr Georgiou was caught doing 59mph on a 40mph road —and the driver was clearly seen putting up two fingers to the speed detection officer in the van. Vasille Georgiou was again sent a notice and he again said it was his dad driving — but he had died in 2008 and MPC Williams discovered this after contacting the Cypriot authorities. And then the defendant was caught for a third time speeding in June 2011, in Plymouth, in his Audi A4 sport doing 46mph in a 30mph zone — and again he blamed his dead father for being behind the wheel. Mr Georgiou admitted two charges of attempting to pervert the course of public justice as his trial had been due to start, and he asked for a third count to be taken into consideration. Defence barrister Nick Lewin said: 'These offences are borne of arrogance and stupidity, someone trying to get the better of the system.' Mr Georgiou was also banned from driving for eight months by the court.