Ban-flouting Wigan motorist jailed by exasperated justices

Michael Moore, 30, of Crabtree Road, Norley, was first stopped by a patrol on March 30, Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court heard.

At the wheel of a Ford Fiesta outside his house, he refused to give a breath sample and assaulted the police officer trying to arrest him.

On June 6 he was this time caught driving a Volvo C30 on Warrington Road while still banned and the court heard that it happened for a third time just 12 days later when police happened across him in the same car on Montrose Avenue, Norley.

Moore had initially denied all the charges against him - including three of driving while uninsured as well as disqualified - but then changed his pleas to guilty when a trial was imminent.

Jailing him for four months, the chair of the bench told him the reason he was being put behind bars was because he “has pleaded guilty to three offences of driving whilst disqualified, failing to provide a specimen for analysis (which is the second conviction for a like offence) and the more the serious offence of assaulting an emergency worker.

“The officer in this case sustained injury as a direct result of your actions.

“You have deliberately chosen to ignore the court order disqualifying you from driving on these three occasions,” the chair said.