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Frances Kindon

Homes Under The Hammer's Martin Roberts banned from driving after failing to give breath test

Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has been banned from driving for 23 months after failing to give a roadside breath test.

The 55-year-old BBC star was taken to Keynsham Police Centre in Bath, Somerset, on November 24 last year, after being pulled over by police and refusing to take a breathalyser test on medical grounds.

Once at the station, the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestant again declined to give a breath specimen and was charged with failing to provide a sample 'without reasonable excuse to do so'.

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Martin Roberts was pulled over by police in Bath on November 24 (Getty Images)
The Homes Under The Hammer presenter refused to take a breath test (Free)

Appearing at Bath Magistrates’ Court on March 27, he denied the charge but was found guilty and fined £3,461.

He was also banned for 23 months and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £930 and a victim surcharge of £120.

According to Reach publication, Somerset Live , his lawyer Charles Knapper said he now plans to appeal the conviction.

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He was banned from driving for 23 months (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Roberts starred in the 2016 series of I'm A Celebrity (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
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"Mr Roberts was convicted despite the evidence from a medical expert that he suffers from certain medical conditions that were likely to have prevented him from giving a sample.

"Mr Roberts maintains that he failed to give a sample only as a result of those medical conditions and is in the process of lodging an appeal.

"It would therefore be inappropriate to comment further until after the appeal has been heard."

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