Rangers forward Roofe fined for not having MOT
RANGERS striker Kemar Roofe has admitted driving without an MOT and a fixed licence plate on his car. The 30- year- old committed the offence in Glasgow’s Govan on March 18, 2021.
Roofe was behind the wheel of a black Porsche 911 when he was stopped by police in relation to another matter.
Roofe was found to have required an MOT two months before he was pulled over. His licence plate was put on the front windscreen after it had fallen off.
Roofe appeared in the dock yesterday where he pleaded guilty at Glasgow’s Justice of the Peace Court to the two charges.
A not guilty was accepted by the Crown for two charges of not having the correct details on his licence and having an out- of- date address on it.
A trial took place where Roofe, of Bearsden, was charged with careless driving at the same time and place.
Constable Adam Gray, 30, told the trial that he was in uniform in an unmarked police car at 11.50pm.
Prosecutor Gail Campbell asked what was brought to PC Gray’s attention.
He said: “We were carrying out an area search for someone unrelated to this matter and I was undertaken by a Porsche 911.”
Miss Campbell later asked when the officer was first aware of the vehicle. PC Gray replied: “As it passed me.”
The officer went on to claim that Roofe’s vehicle went from the inside lane into the outside lane where his vehicle was positioned.
PC Gray stated that Roofe’s car undertook “two or three” vehicles that were ahead of his lice car to enter the lane. The officer added that the vehicles had to brake “harshly.”
Miss Campbell asked what would have happened if the cars did not brake. PC Gray replied: “There would have been a collision.”
Michael Lyons, defending, put the officer’s police statement to him.
It read: “At that time, the Porsche was travelling in front of me in the same lane as me. I could see there were three cars travelling in front of me.” Mr Lyons asked: “Why did you say two completely different things?
“In your statement you said that he was in front of you when you became aware of the car.”
PC Gray said: “I made a mistake, it was two years ago, I made a mistake that the vehicle undertook me – what’s in my statement is right.”
Mr Lyons said: “You know what it might be – a fabrication, a lie under oath.”
PC Gray replied: “I made a mistake.” The court adjourned for 10 minutes before Miss Campbell withdrew the careless driving charge.
Mr Lyons said in relation to the two matters Roofe pled guilty to: “The licence plate fell off, it was on the windscreen of the vehicle.
“He accepts he should have had an MOT – arrangements had been made but it did not come to pass and he apologises for that.”
Justice of the Peace Colin Marchment fined Roofe a total of £ 420.
He told the Jamaican international: “Let’s hope we don’t find you back in court again.”