A baker from Castletown has been fined £300 and had his driving licence endorsed with three penalty points.

Ian Brophy, aged 43, of Arbory Road, admitted offences of having a defective tyre, obscured glass, no vehicle licence, and a licence offence.

He was also ordered by magistrates to pay £50 prosecution costs.

Prosecutor James Robinson told the court how, on May 24 at 8.35am, police stopped Brophy while he was driving a Vauxhall Combo van.

Checks revealed his vehicle licence to have expired in August 2017. The van was also said to have a significant crack in the windscreen and a defective tyre.

Further checks found that Brophy’s driving licence had expired in December 2017.

Defence advocate David Reynolds said: ’At the time Mr Brophy was stopped, he tells me he was on his way to get a quote to have the windscreen repaired as his intent was to sell the vehicle.

’He tells me he had not been using that vehicle regularly.’

Mr Reynolds went on to say that Brophy was employed as a baker in Ramsey and that his driving licence was a 10-year licence which he had not realised had expired.

Magistrates fined Brophy £150 for the defective tyre, £100 for the obscured glass, £50 for having no vehicle licence, with no separate penalty for the licence offence.