Interim ban for Thatcham driver awaiting sentencing

A MAN convicted of driving dangerously on Thatcham roads has been rebailed after an apparent communications breakdown.

In December last year, Brandon Lee Tidbury pleaded guilty to the charge.

Specifically, the 23-year-old, of Bath Road, Thatcham, admitted driving a Seat Leon dangerously on Bowling Green Road, Thames Road and Dart Close, Thatcham.

He further admitted offences of failing to stop for police when required, of driving without insurance and of driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.

All the above offences were committed in Thatcham on Monday, April 27, last year.

Mr Tidbury was told that the matters were so serious that the court’s powers of punishment could be insufficient.

Magistrates declined further

therefore jurisdiction and sent the entire case to Reading Crown Court to be sentenced by a judge.

They meanwhile ordered presentence reports and made Mr Tidbury subject to an interim driving ban.

He appeared for sentencing at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday, January 27.

But Judge Kirsty Real was told by Steve Molloy, defending, that no report had been prepared.

The probation service said they had no record of it having been ordered.

Judge Real said that, under the circumstances, she would adjourn sentencing in order for the report to be prepared.

She warned Mr Tidbury that custody remained a sentencing option “in light of what I’ve heard about these offences”.

Mr Tidbury was meanwhile released again on unconditional bail and is still subject to an interim driving ban.