The defendant was spared from a ban because magistrates judged it would cause "exceptional hardship." (Image: Newsquest)
USING a hand-held mobile phone while he was driving has cost a motorist from Maryport £244 and six points on his licence.
Lewis Jake Towers, 27, of Curzon Street, admitted the offence and was sentenced at Carlisle’s Rickergate Magistrates’ Court. It happened at 11.50am on February 24 on the A597, west of Workington, the court heard.
The defendant was driving a Ford car in High Harrington.
He was fined £100, with £110 costs and a £34 victim surcharge. Magistrates said there should be no totting up disqualification because it would cause “exceptional hardship”, leading to a loss of employment and impacting on his business partner.
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