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vehicle with the police, magistrates were told.
It was discovered the car was also only insured for Goicoechea’s father to drive.
Matthew Purvis, mitigating, said Goicoechea was now a “very different man” from when he was jailed in 2011 and had been in employment since his release from prison.
He said: “He simply forgot to fill a form in an send it to the police. He’s absolutely determined not to go back to his criminal ways and he’s not committed any crimes, he’s simply forgotten to register his vehicle.”
Mr Purvis said Goicoechea also wrongly believed his dad had insured him on the car.
Because it was his sixth breach of the order, magistrates committed Goicoechea to Newcastle Crown Court for sentence. He was bailed to appear there on September 5. Goicoechea was jailed for eight years nine months in 2011 after he was convicted of being involved in a drugs supply chain which deployed couriers to transport cocaine between North Tyneside and Liverpool and steroids between North Tyneside and Bristol. Newcastle Crown Court previously heard how the Goicoechea and his accomplices cultivated a network of friends, many of whom had never been in trouble before, to act as couriers and dealers. They brought drugs into the region from a contact in Liverpool and filtered them out into the streets of North Tyneside. But the dealings were brought to an end after officers from Northumbria Police infiltrated the drugs ring as part of Operation Geneva. Matthew Purvis