Jail for banned driver

5:00pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

A MONMOUTH man was jailed last week for driving dangerously while he had already been disqualified from being in charge of a motor vehicle.

David Davies, aged 27, of St James Street, was sentenced to seven months in prison for dangerous driving and a concurrent four months for driving while disqualified at Newport Crown Court.

John Propert, prosecuting, told the court that while driving through the centre of Monmouth on May 22 of this year, Davies had spotted police officers in a car.

He drove away quickly because he knew that one of his passengers was wanted by the police, the court heard.

While the police car chased him through the streets of the town with its blue lights going and sirens blaring he almost knocked over a pedestrian and failed to stop when his Land Rover Discovery was involved in a road traffic accident.

He missed a school lollipop man wearing a high visibility jacket standing in Almshouse Street, outside Monmouth School, by about five feet and didn’t stop when he clipped another car causing damage to a wing mirror.

Davies had been disqualified from driving since 2005 and as such would be unable to obtain insurance.

Sentencing, Judge David Morris said: "In the wrong hands a motor vehicle can be a weapon."

Davies was also disqualified from driving until 2012.

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