An Aberdeen man has been sent back to jail after he was caught driving while banned for the 19th time.
David Stewart also admitted driving while uninsured on the city’s Guild Street on March 24, when he appeared at the city’s sheriff court yesterday.
The 36-year-old, whose address was given as Glenbervie Road, also pleaded guilty to being on bail at the time of the offence.
Stewart, it emerged, had previously been caught driving while disqualified 18 times and had also been found to be driving without insurance 23 times.
Defence agent Shane Campbell said Stewart had an “lengthy and unenviable” record.
Mr Campbell said that custody had clearly not helped to reform Stewart and that it might be in the public interest to impose some other form of punishment.
However Sheriff Malcolm Garden said that Stewart had been on a community payback order at the time of the offence, and it had failed to prevent him from re-offending.
He said: “I think it’s probably fair to say that custody hasn’t assisted your non-offending, but neither has anything else.”
Sheriff Garden jailed him for 10 months and also banned him for driving for a further three years.
