please log in to view this image Hull City midfielder Mohamed Diame has escaped being punished for driving without insurance and while disqualified after a court heard he didn't know he was banned. Magistrates accepted the Senegalese midfielder's claims that he was unaware he was disqualified for six months between July 2015 and January 2016. Diame's Audi jeep had been stopped by police on the A164 in Willbery, East Yorkshire, on December 7, because the vehicle's MoT certificate had expired. Police then found the 28-year-old had been banned from driving and his insurance was invalid. Lawyers representing Diame, who has a Spanish driving licence from his time playing for Linares and Rayo Vallecano before he moved to England, told the court their client had moved address several times in the UK. Correspondence from his previous ban, handed down by magistrates at Sheffield Magistrates' Court had not been sent to his current address in East Yorkshire. Diame was subsequently unaware he had been banned from six-months for a totting up offence. Beverley Magistrates' Court heard Diame's invalid insurance had been a result of being disqualified from driving. "He was disqualified, he was driving. "It is strict liability, like parking on a double yellow line. "The defendant had left his London address. He had, as far as he was concerned, updated the DVLA that he was living in a hotel. That is supported by the fact that he updated his insurance. "If notices of a new prosecution were sent out they would have gone to a previous address." – DIAME'S BARRISTER, MICHAEL NEOFYTOU "We find special reasons for not imposing obligatory endorsements for the defendant's driving licence for driving while disqualified and using a vehicle without insurance. "This is because we accept the defendant's evidence that he did not know about the hearing at Sheffield Magistrates' Court when disqualification was imposed. "The defendant has changed his address on numerous occasions and he has notified the DVLA of each change of address and postage has not caught up with this. "We accept he thought he was insured and had paid the premium." – MAGISTRATE PATRICIA BONTOFT Diame was told by magistrates his licence would not be endorsed for driving while disqualified and without insurance. The footballer was fined £146 for using a vehicle without insurance and ordered to pay £251 in costs. http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/20...escapes-punishment-for-driving-while-banned/?
I don't understand why he did not get a new 6 months ban as he really only served one month of his original ban because he drove for 5 months unaware that he was banned? Did the Magistrate not figure that out or is there a legal reason? Any lawyers out there?
They don't. Anymore than MOTs requires an apostrophe. The Jensen and E-type would be on the drive if the lottery numbers ever came up. With an AC Cobra. All it would need is a mini-skirted Julie Christie look-alike and I could put my 1960s fantasies into place. Or try.
