A MAN who committed two motoring offences while serving a community service order for grave and criminal assault has been sent to prison – after he asked for a jail sentence.
In the Magistrate’s Court this week, Kealan Paul Hanna (24) admitted riding his moped while disqualified and without insurance on 27 January.
A month earlier Hanna had been sentenced to 140 hours of community service for grave and criminal assault.
By re-offending he was in breach of his community service order.
Crown Advocate Chris Baglin, prosecuting, told the court that Hanna had completed just five hours of the sentence so far.
Hanna claimed he had ridden the moped only a short distance from his home in St Saviour to check the vehicle was working properly before selling it.
Advocate Adam Harrison, defending, said Hanna would rather go to prison than carry out an extended community service order.
He explained that his client faced ‘difficulties’ with community service orders and said: ‘Mr Hanna acknowledges that he does not want to set himself up to fail.’
Advocate Harrison suggested a prison sentence of four months or less.
He added: ‘It was recklessness. But it was not a deliberate disobeying of the court’s order.’
Relief Magistrate David Le Cornu jailed Hanna for a total of ten months and two weeks, comprising seven months and two weeks for the previous grave and criminal assault and a consecutive three months for the motoring offences. Hanna was also banned from driving for a year.
