A REPEAT offender has been banned from the roads after he was caught out in Hereford without a licence or insurance.

Ashley Jones was proven guilty of one count of driving without a licence and one of driving without valid third-party insurance by magistrates in Worcester in February.

The court heard from the prosecutor that the 23-year-old had been caught after getting behind the wheel of a Citroen Berlingo in Hereford's Wyedean Rise on July 26 last year.

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He did not have a licence authorising him to drive a vehicle of that class and did not have a valid insurance policy in place, the court heard.

Jones, of Sherborne Close, Hereford, was fined £660, and received six penalty points.

He was also disqualified from driving for six months, with magistrates saying a ban was obligatory due to repeat offending, and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £90 and a £264 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.


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