A MOTORIST with an appalling driving record has been jailed for getting behind the wheel again.

Brian Jevons has an astonishing 21 previous convictions for disqualified driving.

Yet this did not stop him from motoring around Burtonwood – in total disregard for sentences handed down to him by the courts.

Jevons appeared before Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Friday after being charged with driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Ashley Simpson, prosecuting, explained how the 46-year-old committed the motoring offences on November 30 last year.

He was convicted of driving a Ford Focus on Lockheed Road in Burtonwood while disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence.

He was also using the motor vehicle on a public road without valid third-party insurance.

In his sentencing remarks, chair magistrate John Nelson said he would take Jevons’ guilty pleas into account.

However, he commented that only an immediate custodial sentence was appropriate due to the defendant’s ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’ in terms of his 21 previous disqualified driving convictions.

The offences were also aggravated by him giving false details in an attempt to avoid detection.

Jevons, of Gregory Close in Old Hall, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and disqualified again from driving for 18 months.

He must also pay court costs of £85 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £128.