A MAN has been handed an 18-week prison sentence for using a motorbike in Bournemouth while he was disqualified from driving already serving a suspended sentence for motoring offences.

Callum Anthony David White was caught riding a Yamaha YZF-R1 while disqualified in Wimborne Road at around 5.20pm March 16.

An officer from Dorset Police’s No Excuse team, who was off duty, saw the defendant on the motorcycle at a set of traffic lights.

The officer recognised the driver as White, who had been disqualified from driving for 12 months in August 2019 for motoring offences and was given a prison sentence of 12 weeks, suspended for 12 months.

As the motorcycle set off from the traffic lights, the officer saw it was not displaying a visible registration mark.

Following enquiries, officers located White in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, where he was arrested and his motorcycle was seized.

White, aged 23 and of Knyveton Road, Bournemouth, admitted driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and using a fraudulent registration plate. He was sentenced at Poole Magistrates’ Court on November 30.

The bench committed him to prison for 12 weeks for the crimes in March, which will run consecutively to six weeks imprisonment from the suspended sentence order.

The defendant was disqualified from driving for 12 months and 63 days and ordered to pay £128 surcharge.

PC Neil Wallis, of the No Excuse team, said: “Callum White was the subject of a suspended sentence and knew he faced going to prison if he flouted his ban, but he still decided to get on his motorcycle and take to the road.

“I am pleased that we were able to catch him in the act so he could face the consequences of his actions.”