A banned driver has been brought back before the courts after he was caught driving a moped in Farnworth.

Kai Hart, 24, was pulled over by police on June 24 when they spotted him driving the Lexmoto on Buckley Lane.

He had already been serving a year long suspended sentence for dangerous driving handed down in March this year, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Eleanor Myers, prosecuting, said: “The defendant was convicted of driving while disqualified, using a motor vehicle without insurance and was in breach of a suspended sentence.”

Ms Myers told the court that Hart, of Kersal Road, Prestwich, has six previous convictions for 13 offences.

The Bolton News: The case was heard at Minshull Street Crown CourtThe case was heard at Minshull Street Crown Court (Image: Newsquest)

Along with his conviction for dangerous driving in March this year, he had also been jailed for six months in 2020 again for dangerous driving.

Ms Myers argued that given the offences he had already committed, the fact he had broken the laws of the road again meant that the court would have the power to activate his original sentence.

But Joshua Bowker, defending, argued that when committing his most recent offence Hart had not made the situation worse for himself by trying to escape from the police.

He said: “He did not, as many other defendants who come into this court or indeed Mr Hart himself some time ago, would have done.

“He did not take the stupid decision to put his foot down and try and escape the officers.”

Mr Bowker added that Hart had originally wanted to use the moped to get to his place of work as a roofer, which was 40 minutes away.

He had since left that job and was looking for a new one which would not need him to drive.

Hart had pleaded guilty before the magistrates court on November 15 to driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and breaching his suspended sentence at the earliest possible opportunity.

Mr Bowker said it was "perhaps baffling" that the case had taken this long to bring to court.

Judge Mark Savill agreed to defer Hart’s sentencing until early next year but warned him that he still faced a very real danger of jail time.

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He warned Hart not to commit any further offences and said he must make ‘every effort’ to find a new job.

Judge Savill said: “I want an updated report and I want it to say in glowing terms that he’s been doing everything he’s been asked to do.”

He added: “I’m postponing my decision but if he lets me down it will be an easy one and he knows where he will be going.”