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‘Silly mistake’ results in fine
2:49pm Monday 20th August 2007
Comments (2)A man who pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance in Worcester Park was fined £585 and given six points on his licence at Kingston Magistrates' Court last week.
Paul Diamond, 31, of Daimler Way, Wallington, was stopped in Lower Green Gardens on July 31 and admitted driving while disqualified.
Diamond, a window cleaner, said he had employed two men to drive for him when he lost his licence in January but had made the "silly mistake" of driving himself to a job when neither of the men turned up.
Magistrate Judith Jewell said: "This is an extremely serious offence - there might have been school children around.
"I bet you wish you could turn the clock back."
Diamond was fined £400 for driving while disqualified and his licence was endorsed with six points.
He was fined a further £100 for having no insurance and ordered to pay £70 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
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Bob, Cheam says...
1:39pm Wed 22 Aug 07
Presumably it would take him killing a child for the magistrate to give him a decent punishment? 6 points on his license is hardly going to bother him if he's already disqualified, a judicial sentence was in order.