A driver who committed offences in January, February, March and April this year has been fined by Douglas magistrates.
Jonathan Terence Thwaites, of Castlemona Avenue in Douglas, was guilty on three separate occasions of failing to notify a change of vehicle ownership. He was also caught by police speeding through the Peel Road 30mph zone at 53mph.
When police stopped Thwaites’ VW Golf, on Peel Road, they also found multiple defects on it including a noisy after-market exhaust, cracks in the windscreen, an illuminated ABS warning light on the dash board, oil leaks, a defective fog light, a split CV boot on the drive shaft, wear in a suspension ball joint and suspension arm bush and an allegedly missing wing mirror.
The 21-year-old initially told police the car was not his, but changed his mind.
For the prosecution, James Robinson said police had stopped Thwaites’ speeding car at 1.20am on Peel Road on March 24. Less than a month later on April 11, they again pulled him over on Peel Road, this time at 9.30pm.
‘There were complaints about a blue VW that was noisy and back-firing,’ he said.
He said the car was subsequently seized and examined at the test centre.
Defending Thwaites, Ian Kermode said the wing mirror was not missing while the car was in his client’s possession and the exhaust noise level was within legal limits. Though properly insured, he said Thwaites had been lax about producing his documents and the speeding had been on an empty road in the small hours of the morning.
He admitted speeding, failing to notify a change of ownership, having a dangerous vehicle and failing to produce his insurance document. He was fined £480 with eight points in total and must pay £50 costs.