Four months for banned driver
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alko driver caught dri
ving while disqualified has been jailed for four months.
Ronald Love, of Council Street, Llay, Wrexham, pleaded guilty before Wrexham magistrates to two charges of driving while disqualified; two of driving while uninsured; and one of using a vehicle with a dangerous load.
Richard Green, prosecuting, said that in May 1995 Love had been stopped in a weight check and his vehicle, which was laden with soil, was found to be overloaded. Enquiries revealed that Love had been banned from driving for 10 years and his disqualification was not due to end until January 2000.
In July 1996 Love was stopped again while driving the same vehicle, this time loaded with concrete, said Green. The vehicle was found to be overloaded by 12.8% and the second axle by 31.6%, he added.
Love had been dealt with previously by the Mold magis
trates for the two overloading offences, when he was fined a total of .C150.
Love said that on both occasions he had only been driving to help out his son. He claimed that these were the only two occasions on which he had driven while banned.
Jailing Love, and disqualifying him from driving for a further 18 months, the magistrates said that an immediate prison sentence was the only appropriate one in light of his blatant disregard of the previous court order. Love had been caught driving an overweight vehicle and had been a danger to the public.