Driving 11 days after insurance conviction

A driver was stopped eleven days after he was convicted of driving without insurance.

Clive Somers of 59 Caltragh was summoned for not having insurance on December 12 th 2016. He had been before the court on December 1st and convicted and banned from driving for four years but the latter would not have come into effect until fifteen days later. Somers told the court he didn’t know his policy had been cancelled. He had fallen out with his girlfriend and she stopped paying the direct debit mandate three months after the policy started.

“He’s on his way to Castlerea,” remarked Judge Kevin Kilrane to Mr Gerard McGovern, solicitor (defending). “How could he possibly think he was insured 11 days later unless he affected a new policy?”

He noted that the defendant had ten adjournments of the case so far. The Judge gave the defendant one week to clarify the issue of his insurance.