Banned Surfleet driver caught getting behind the wheel again

Less than four months after being given a suspended prison sentence for driving while he was disqualified, a Surfleet man has been arrested again for a similar offence.

Edvinas Piragis (29), of Newlands Road, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance when he appeared at Boston Magistrates' Court last Wednesday.

Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police saw Piragis driving an Audi A4 in Holbeach Road, Spalding, at 4.30pm on May 10 and stopped the car as computer records showed that there was only a woman’s name on the insurance.

She said that when he was stopped, he admitted he was disqualified from driving which also invalidated the insurance.

She said Piragis had been banned from driving in June last year until September this year and that in January he had been given an eight week suspended prison sentence, also for driving while disqualified.

Mitigating, Roger Lowther said Piragis had immediately admitted the offence when the police had stopped him and had no real excuse for driving as he was just going to work.

Piragis was sent to prison for eight weeks for breaching the suspended sentence and a further six weeks for the new offence, a total of 14 weeks in custody.

He was also ordered to pay a total of £205 in court costs and charges and was banned from driving for two years.