A disqualified motorist has been jailed after being caught offending again. On September 20 officers noticed Garfield Lewis driving a van in Marlborough Road, Woodthorpe, shortly before 11pm.
The 40-year-old was seen driving whilst disqualified and without insurance. he was arrested by police officers after they caught up with his van.
Lewis, of Standhill Road, Carlton, was charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis, disqualified driving and driving with no insurance. He was also charged with breaching a previous suspended sentence order.
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Lewis appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on 22 September and pleaded guilty and was jailed for eight months.
PC Louis Jamieson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “This is a great result against Garfield who has not only committed driving offences on this occasion but was already serving a suspended sentence for previous incidents and has obviously not learnt his lesson.
“A single lapse of concentration, using a phone at the wheel or dangerous driving can have devastating consequences which is why we always treat driving offences extremely seriously.
“To know you are on a suspended sentence order for previous driving offences and to re-offend shows a complete lack of care for other road users and the law and I hope this sends a strong message to everyone that you can go to prison for these kinds of offences and won’t just receive a slap on the wrist.”
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