Prison for multiple traffic offences

Sunday 01 September 2019

A man has been fined £580, sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and disqualified from driving after committing a number of parking and traffic offences.

Jose Pires was fined in the Magistrate's Court for multiple charges of overstaying in a ten hour parking space at the Odeon carpark, as well as failing to display his parking clock.

For each of those counts the 24-year-old has been ordered to pay £70.

He was fined a further £100 for driving unsupervised with only a provisional licence, and £200 for not displaying his 'L' plates.

Pictured: The Guernsey Royal Court House.

Pires also faced three charges of driving without insurance, which resulted in 12 weeks in prison and a three year ban from driving in Guernsey.

He has a number of previous convictions and was only released from prison earlier this year.

On sentencing, Judge McKerrell said the defendant had a "clear pattern of offending behaviour" along with a "blatant and cavalier attitude to road safety".

"You do what you want, rather than what the law permits you to do," he added.

 Pictured top: The Odeon carpark.