A MAN who set up a charity in memory of his wife has been accused of totting up speeding tickets in her name – after her death.

Christopher Bingley of Allison Drive, Fartown, is accused of perverting the course of justice in relation to four speeding offences in Huddersfield.

The 44-year-old dad of one is alleged to have attributed the speeding to his wife Joanne, who committed suicide several months before the first offence.

Joanne Bingley, 39, was killed after she threw herself in front of a First Transpennine train from Hull to Manchester, near Deighton station on April 30, 2010.

Bingley blamed his wife’s death on post-natal depression (PND) and set up a charity to highlight the illness in February last year.

At Huddersfield Magistrates Court yesterday, prosecutor Carole Lawford said that after Bingley’s wife had died he had continued to drive her Jeep Cherokee car and when caught speeding had the points credited to her licence. The four offences are grouped in to three counts.

The first count alleges that on April 14, 2011, Bingley falsely completed speeding notices addressed to his wife regarding offences on February 20, 2011 and April 9, 2011.

Count two accuses him of the same offence for a speeding ticket on August 2, 2010 and the third count relates to speeding on August 6, 2010.

Bingley appeared at Huddersfield Magistrates Court yesterday but only spoke to confirm his name and address.

The case was adjourned to Bradford Crown Court on March 28.

No indication of his plea was made.

In an in-depth interview with The Examiner last year, Bingley, who works as a management consultant, spoke about how his wife struggled with severe depression following the birth of their baby daughter Emily.

He launched the Joanne (Joe) Bingley Memorial Foundation to highlight the illness and support those affected by it and also produced a leaflet to outline international guidelines on PND as he claimed local guidance was inadequate.

He said he blamed health professionals for Joanne’s death and said she could have been cured if she had been admitting to hospital.

But having pushed for an investigation into how her condition was treated by local health services, he was left disappointed when an inquest into her death ruled she had not been neglected.