A POWYS motorist has been disqualified for a year and fined over £800 for what a court branded “repeat offending”.
Aaron Rhodes failed to appear at Llanelli Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, January 17, where magistrates found him guilty of driving without a licence and no insurance in Landrindod Wells last year.
Rhodes, 28, was stopped just before 12.30pm on Wellington Road in the spa town on June 3, driving a Ford Fiesta, and police discovered he did not have a licence, neither was he insured to drive the vehicle.
Rhodes, of Minfield, Bronllys, did not attend court, but magistrates found the case proved in his absence.
He was fined £660 and ordered to pay £90 costs and a £66 surcharge – making a total of £816.
He was also disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 12 month – which the court said was “obligatory due to repeat offending”.
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