A WOMAN has been allowed to keep her licence after a court found it would cause exceptional hardship for her to lose it.
Rachel Jane Rizzo was proven guilty by magistrates in Hereford on December 2.
The court heard she had been behind the wheel of a Ford C-Max without insurance in Leominster's Bridge Street on April 20 last year.
She was initially disqualified from driving for six months due to repeat offending, fined £660, and ordered to pay costs of £90 and a £66 victim surcharge.
But the case was reopened in January, with the conviction and sentence, including the disqualification, set aside.
The 29-year-old appeared before magistrates in Worcester on February 25 for the case to be re-sentenced.
Rizzo, of Henley Road, Ludlow, was fined £120 and received eight penalty points. She must also pay costs of £200 and a £25 victim surcharge.
Magistrates heard that a ban would cause exceptional hardship due to her caring commitments to family members, and no totting disqualification was made.
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