A Port Erin teenager has been fined £100 for driving without a valid licence.

Harrison Dempsey, 17, only held a provisional licence when he was stopped by police on September 20.

Magistrates also endorsed his licence with two points and ordered £50 prosecution costs.

A second charge of having no insurance, was withdrawn.

Police saw the defendant driving on Shore Road in Port Erin.

He had a passenger with him, but they were not qualified to supervise him.

Dempsey, of Ocean Castle Drive, told police: ‘I’m sorry, I’m a learner, I know I shouldn’t be driving.’

Defence advocate Helen Lobb said the teenager had been out with friends and there'd been a degree of peer pressure, but he'd since passed his test.