Open your shirt and prove who you are, man told

The man had been stopped by police who thought he was a “well known local criminal” but in fact William James Moore had simply bought a car from the man in question.

However when the 33-year-old from Killyvally Park in Garvagh said that he was not the person they were looking for police replied; “Well, you are driving his car”.

Mr Moore then had to open his shirt to prove that he did not have the tattoos that police knew the criminal to have before the police believed him.

He explained to police that he had only recently bought the car.

However in the course of the incident on October 30 last year police discovered that Mr Moore was driving without insurance and without a valid driving licence.

Defence for Mr Moore said that her client had simply taken a chance to go out in the car as he wanted to buy his child a family pet.

This chance lead to the “chapter of errors” which lead to Mr Moore being stopped by police who thought he was the criminal known to them.

District Judge, Richard Wilson, fined the defendant 250 for driving without insurance and banned him from driving for six months. He was also fined a further 50 for having no driving licence.

“The bottom line is that you should not have been on the road,” said Mr Wilson.