 The petition contained signatures from around the world |
An ambulance driver charged with speeding while delivering a liver for a life-saving transplant has presented a petition of more than 20,000 signatures to Downing Street. Mick Ferguson, 56, of Birkenshaw, near Bradford, is due to appear in court next week after he was allegedly spotted driving at 104mph on his way to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
On the doorstep of Number 10, Mr Ferguson thanked the public for their support in signing the petition - which calls on the government to clarify the law regarding the transportation of human organs.
The senior driver with West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service was delivering a liver to the hospital on 16 January when he was allegedly caught speeding on the A1 by Lincolnshire Police.
 |  I work in saving lives and as far as I am concerned that was what I was doing that particular night  |
He pleaded not guilty to the charge through his lawyers at a hearing before Grantham magistrates in June. Mr Ferguson is not only calling for his own court case to be suspended but for a clarification in the law.
He said: "We would like Downing Street to say 'OK, enough is enough. The judicial process is suspended as far as you are concerned and we will review the law' so that no one has to go through what I have gone through in the last 10 months.
"I was doing my job. I work in saving lives and as far as I am concerned that was what I was doing that particular night."
Union leaders say that if the ambulance driver, who has a 36-year unblemished record, is found guilty, he will lose his job and the ruling will have an adverse effect on the human organ transportation programme.
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