A BUILDER clocked by traffic police doing 104-mph in a Jaguar on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire told a court yesterday he had not passed a test in two decades of driving.
Terence Richardson, 54, told Harrogate magistrates: "I have been driving for over 20 years without ever holding a full licence. I only have a provisional licence. I will accept the punishment."
He said that when police stopped him at Marton-le-Moor, near Boroughbridge, he had been on his way from his home, in Cambridgeshire, taking his elderly parents back to their home in the North-East.
Richardson pleaded guilty to speeding, driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and failing to produce licence, insurance and test certificate.
Fining him a total of £750 with £45 costs and banning him from the roads for 35 days, court chairman David Davies said: "This is outrageous. And on this occasion you were driving a powerful car at a very high speed with other people in the vehicle."
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