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A Croftamie man caught driving while disqualified was this week placed on a curfew and banned for 14 months.

A neighbour had spotted Cameron Mcfarlane, of Edmond Terrace, driving at 10.30pm on October 13 last year.

The 58-year-old had admitted charges of driving on Edmond Terrace and on Stirling Road, Drymen, while disqualified and without insurance.

When he appeared for sentence last week, fiscal depute Ann Orr told Stirling Sheriff Court Mcfarlane had been spotted driving a vehicle by a neighbour who knew he had been disqualified.

There was also video evidence of him driving the vehicle.

His lawyer George Pollock told Sheriff Keith O’mahony that Mcfarlane accepted full responsibility for the matter.

He also pointed out that his client had significant health issues as well as financial difficulties.

Mr Pollock said that Mcfarlane was not fit for community service.

He asked Sheriff O’mahony to consider a Restriction of Liberty Order and a disqualification rather than custody.

Mcfarlane had offered to help a friend with his flock of sheep and the lawyer asked that any curfew be confined to the hours of 7pm and 4.30am so he could help “on a limited basis”.

Not guilty pleas to charges of driving without a test certificate and failing to give details to a police officer had been accepted by the Crown.

Sheriff O’mahony sentenced Mcfarlane to an eight-week Restriction of Liberty Order confining him to his home between 7pm and 4.30am and disqualified him from driving for 14 months, reduced from 18 months due to the timing of the guilty plea, on the charge of driving while disqualified.

Mcfarlane was admonished and his licence endorsed on the charge of driving without insurance.