Dundee motorist jailed after he repeatedly flouted driving ban

A motorist who repeatedly flouted a driving ban has been locked up and banned from the road for the next decade.

Police clocked 29-year-old Charlie Anderson behind the wheel of a car in Dundee on three separate occasions between February and April – despite being disqualified from driving. On one occasion, an intoxicated Anderson stumbled out of a vehicle and had to jump back into the driver’s seat to pull the handbrake on as the car rolled away.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard that in the first incident, a member of the public saw Anderson driving a Nissan Qashqai which collided with a fence on Longtown Road.

Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said a month later, police on patrol in the early hours of the morning in the Hilltown area saw Anderson driving a Vauxhall Astra that was swerving and having difficulty to park.

On a third occasion, Anderson was captured on CCTV driving a black Audi containing a group of friends into the car park outside Clark’s Bakery on Annfield Row.

Anderson, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pled guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance on South Road and Longtown Road on February 3.

He committed the same offences on Hilltown and Hilltown Terrace on March 25 as well as driving while unfit through drink or drugs. Anderson also drove while disqualified and uninsured on Peddie Street and Annfield Row on April 10.

Jailing Anderson for 28 months, Sheriff Tom Hughes said: “You have a bad record and you committed these offences while subject to an unexpired portion of sentence.”