MAGISTRATES have imposed a curfew on a Warrington teenager after he got behind the wheel of a car while banned from driving for 12 months.
Anthony Bevan, aged 19, of Vulcan Close, Padgate, was sentenced at Rochdale Magistrates' Court after admitting driving in Queensway, Rochdale.
Police arrested Bevan on a garage forecourt following a routine vehicle check.
The defendant admitted to officers that he had been previously banned under the 'totting up' procedure - an order that was still in force at the time of the offence.
The court heard that Bevan had travelled to Rochdale with two men and a woman to buy a vehicle but had been pressured to drive the car back to Warrington. The Padgate man will serve a three-month curfew order, meaning he must stay indoors every day between 8pm and 6am.
He was ordered to pay court costs of £55.
Bevan, who suffers curvature of the spine and cannot work, escaped a community punishment order due to his disability.
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