A 41-YEAR-OLD motorist who was caught for a second time using his phone while driving has been fined £400 and banned from the roads for two months.
On hearing the sentence in the Magistrate’s Court, Christopher Edward Huish protested: “I can’t be disqualified from driving.”
But Relief Magistrate David Le Cornu told him: “I just have disqualified you from driving.”
Huish was seen using a smartphone while driving his blue Volkswagen along Rouge Bouillon just before 4pm on 9 December.
Huish said that he was in slow-moving traffic and the police officer who spotted him confirmed that he had been driving at 10mph.
But the court was also told it was the second time he had been caught using a phone while driving.
He was fined £150 at a parish hall inquiry for the first offence on 7 November, weeks before committing the second offence.
Huish told the court he needed his car for work and to take his children to school, and had now installed a hands-free system in his car, however the Relief Magistrate said a second offence merited the driving ban.
