At the end of the day, they both made a decision they knew was wrong as they thought they could get away with it.
They got found out and they both still thought they could get away with it. I suspect they may have made the assumption that they were ‘above the law’. They have now found out.
Daft thing is that he was a serial speeder and got banned a short while afterwards anyway – suggests he doesn’t learn!
Anyway, they are both criminals now and that is a recorded fact. They knew what they were doing was illegal, end of. Do I feel sympathetic towards them? Not really. They played the system and lost. They have no excuse.