Repeat offender lands 12 months in jail for driving without licence

Burgh Spiteri, 23, from Valletta was sentenced to twelve months in prison and banned from obtaining a driving licence within the next two years after a court found the youth "insisted" on breaking the law.

Inspector Maria Stella Attard told the court that on 29 June 2010, Spiteri was apprehended at Pietà behind the wheel of a car which he was neither licensed nor insured to drive. The youth had already been accused of driving a car without a licence and insurance on 31 August of the same year, and charged with not wearing a seat belt and relapsing.

The Valletta youth admitted his guilt in both cases, however the court held that in the past Spiteri had already been found guilty of the same offences and that he seemed to insist on breaking the law.

Seeing that the accused was already placed under probation in 2007, Magistrate Franesco Depasuale sentenced the 23-year-old to 12 months in jail.