A REPEAT offender has been banned from the roads after he was caught out behind the wheel of a Mercedes on a busy Herefordshire main road.

Slade Garrett was proven guilty of one count of using a vehicle on a road or public place without insurance by magistrates in Worcester in May.

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The court heard from the prosecutor that the 48-year-old had been caught out on the A417 near Dinmore in Herefordshire after getting behind the wheel of a Mercedes E270 on September 7 without a valid third party insurance policy in place.

Garrett, of Laystone Green, Marden, was fined £660 and disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for six months, with magistrates saying a roads ban was obligatory due to repeat offending.

He was also handed six penalty points 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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