A woman is to stand trial after pleading not guilty to displaying a threatening bumper sticker on her car.
Georgia Venables, of Prenton Place in Chester, allegedly had a sticker on her car that read: “Don’t be a cunt.”
She is accused of displaying threatening or abusive writing, or a sign or visible representation likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress. Venables, 29, pleaded not guilty to a single charge at Chester magistrates court on Tuesday.
The prosecutor Valeriya Tonkinson told the court that Venables was seen driving on the A5480 in the west of the city on 8 January with the bumper sticker attached to her vehicle.
Venables is due to face at the same court on 29 May. She was granted unconditional bail ahead of the trial.
In 2011 the Manchester United fan Sarah Webb-Lee was told by police to remove an offensive bumper sticker that read: “On the first day God created United then completely fucked up and created City.” After police visited Webb-Lee’s Stockport home, she agreed to have a letter removed.
During the 2019 general election campaign, remain supporters were pulled over by police on the M25 and told to remove “Bollocks to Brexit” car stickers. A passenger in the car posted a video on social media of the incident, which happened near Brentwood in Essex.
On Christmas Day last month, Hampshire police pulled over the driver of a black BMW, alleged to have been doing 118mph, who had a sticker on the car saying: “My driving scares me too.” The motorist was stopped by police on the M27 between Portsmouth and Southampton at lunchtime, a post from the force on X said.
A picture of the vehicle posted on the social networking site showed the yellow sticker, as well as others that read “Misunderstood” and “Too loud? Too bad!”
The driver was due to face court over the alleged speeding offence.
