An Onchan teenager has been banned from driving for six months and sentenced to community service.

Connor Samuel Hall, of Mount View Terrace, admitted driving without insurance, a licence offence, and having a defective tyre.

The 18-year-old already had eight points on his licence from July 2019 and magistrates gave him eight more for the no insurance offence which meant he was banned under the totting up process.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court that police spoke to Hall at his home on September 29 after seeing him driving a Volkswagen Golf at 11.45am.

He did not hold a full driving licence and was not insured for the vehicle.

A probation report said that Hall had been sentenced to 100 hours community service in March but had completed those hours.

He was also sentenced to 12 months probation on that occasion and the report recommended that that continue.

Magistrates sentenced Hall to a further 40 hours of community service and ordered him to pay £125 prosecution costs.