Banned driver gets a lesson from judge

RECALLED TO COURT AFTER GIVING A ‘COCKY" HIGH-FIVE

- By CARL EVE

A HIGH-fiving disqualified driver was left speechless after he was brought back to court and told he would be spending the night in custody after he had just been given chance to go straight.

Leon Adkins, aged 21 and from Bodmin Road, Plymouth, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday for a sentencing hearing after he had previously admitted driving while disqualified, which put him in breach of a suspended sentence order made in February.

At the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Lewis Aldous reminded that court that Adkins, who was accompanied by a number of friends who sat in the public gallery and in the corridor outside the court, had been caught driving a mere three months after the driving ban had been imposed.