A HEREFORD driver who failed to provide a sample or turn up to court has been banned from the roads for four years.

Eduards Desko entered a guilty plea to one count of failing to provide a specimen for analysis and one count of failing to surrender to police or court bail at the appointed time when he appeared before magistrates in Swindon in October.

The court heard from prosecutor Keith Ballinger that the 46-year-old had been asked to provide a breath specimen for analysis when suspected of having driven a vehicle and during the course of an investigation into whether he had committed an offence in Swindon on September 23.

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But, magistrates were told, Desko had failed without reasonable excuse to provide the sample.

He had also failed without reasonable cause to surrender to custody at Salisbury magistrates court on October 11, having been released on bail in criminal proceedings in Melksham on September 24.

Desko, of Ross Road, Hereford, was handed a 12-month community order with 180 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 48 months.

He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £114 victim surcharge.