Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear team could be looking at some jail time due to a controversial christmas episode.
Filming a Christmas special in Argentina, Clarkson and the rest of the crew had to make an escape to neighbouring Chile after a group of locals were angered by the number plate on the presenter’s car.
The number plate read ‘H982 FKL’ which they felt was a reference to the Falklands war. In an attempt to avoid confrontation, the Top Gear team switched the number plate, which was seen as falsification and nearly ended a full-scale criminal investigation against those involved.
According to a report in the Daily Express, state prosecutor Maria Cristina Barrionuevo decided not to press ahead on the grounds that the team had attempted to avoid further trouble.
However now three appeal judges have sided with prosecutors and ordered the reopening of the case – which could see those accused spend a worst case scenario of three years imprisonment.
