Co Tyrone motorist who told police he had temporary insurance, handed two-month ban
A Pomeroy motorist caught driving without insurance has lost his licence for two months.
Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Sam, from Main Street in the village, was also handed a £200 fine and ordered to pay a £15 offender's levy.
Dungannon Magistrates Court heard on Wednesday that on November 21 last year, police on mobile patrol at Newell Road in Dungannon stopped a car which checks showed was not insured.
Prosecuting counsel said the defendant told police that he had temporary insurance but was unable to produce it. On November 27, he went to Cookstown police station and admitted he did not have insurance.
A defence lawyer said that the defendant had been contacted by a friend to take him into Dungannon to get a bus.
The lawyer explained that he had tried to get temporary insurance in place when he discovered he wasn’t insured and asked the court to take this into account.