A motorist from Weoley Castle has been given a 3 year prison sentence following pleading guilty to Dangerous driving, Driving whilst disqualified, Driving without insurance and Possession of a bladed article.
The offence took place on 8th August near Hopwood, Worcestershire. Nathan Field of Alwold Rd, Weoley Castle failed to stop for police after he was spotted at the services on false registration plates.
Field then proceeded to drive the wrong way out of the service station onto the A441 and continued the wrong way around roundabouts and through a garden in Lea End Lane. Officers managed to bring the vehicle to a stop where it was discovered that the driver had possession of a bladed article and was disqualified from driving and had no insurance.
The case was in court on the 8th December and the offender was sentenced to 36 months in prison and disqualified from driving for four and a half years.
Superintendent Gareth Morgan from West Mercia Police said: “Road Safety and Roads Policing is a high priority for our force. We see too often the impact that such behaviour can lead to on our roads and our officers will do all they can to ensure motorists that are not using our roads responsibly do not evade the law.”
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And yet Katie Price was involved in a RTA and was found to be drunk, high on drugs, banned from driving and no insurance.
She has 5 kids (none of them involved in the RTA fortunately), but knowingly went out in her BMW in her drunken state with no thought or concern over her kids. She was also a danger to other drivers.
The judge said of Price ‘You appear to think that you are above the law. You have one of the worst driving records I have seen. You have been banned from driving on five occasions.
‘The public may be appalled to hear that I can’t send you to jail today. But the law says that when a person has complied with the terms of their release then you have a legitimate expectation not to be sent to prison today, even though you deserve to spend Christmas behind bars.’
End result? A suspended sentence, a 2 year driving ban, 100 hours unpaid work, 20 sessions of rehabilitation work with probation, and to pay court costs of £213.
Yet another inconsistency in the law