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No new licence for television thief

6th July 2006, Page 34
6th July 2006
Page 34
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A DRIVER JAILED for stealing goods from one of his employer's customers has lost his bid for the return of his LCiV licence.

As well as serving 15 months of a three-year prison sentence for theft, Kenneth Thomas, of Speke. Liverpool, had also been convicted of driving or attempting to drive when over the limit, driving without a licence and speeding in an artic he was not licensed to drive.

Thomas told North-Western Traffic Commis sioner Beverley Bell that the theft offences occurred in South Wales during an affair. To keep up with his girlfriend's lifestyle he had stolen televisions and tuna fish from a container belonging to a customer while he was working for RI Bevan Transport, of Newport.

He had lost his marriage and home as a result and was now living with his mother in Liverpool. The drink-driving offence occurred when he was sleeping in his car outside his ex-wife's house as he had nowhere else to go. If he got his licence back, a friend of his father's had said he would get him a job driving car transporters.

The speeding offence arose when he went out with a driver, drove the artic for a short distance and was caught on camera. He was now working in the warehouse of a Speke firm.

The TC did not consider it appropriate to give Thomas his licence back at this stage, stating that Thomas needed to establish a period of offencefree driving.


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