Banned Driver Jailed After Taking Up Delivery Driver Job
A motorist banned for life after racking up one of the country's worst driving records has been jailed - after taking up a job as a delivery driver.
Despite having convictions for 57 driving offences, Alan Scott managed to get a job as a takeaway delivery driver.
But he was caught at the wheel outside the Marmaris kebab house in Perth and now he has been jailed for eight months and banned from driving for another ten years.
Fiscal depute Bill Kermode told Perth Sheriff Court: "Police received a call that a vehicle was parked outside the Marmaris takeaway. There was information that the driver was disqualified.
"Police saw the accused drive off from the takeaway. They saw several people in the car. He immediately admitted he was disqualified having been given a lifetime ban in 2007."
Solicitor Kris Gilmartin, defending, said: "He has committed this offence before and ought to know better. It has long been his position that he views this as something akin to an addiction.
"His position is that he feels some sort of release when he is driving. He has been disqualified for life and ought to accept he should go nowhere near any vehicle for any reason whatsoever.
"Whenever he is in custody he has a particularly difficult time. For want of a better way of putting it, he is bullied in prison."
Scott, 30, Methven, Perthshire, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance in Perth on 31 July.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "This is his fifth conviction for driving while disqualified. The last was in June 2014. He was jailed on that occasion."
He told Scott: "You have driven a coach and horses through the prohibition banning you from driving for life."
Scott's previous convictions include drink driving, dangerous driving and numerous instances of driving while disqualified.
He has been banned from driving for life on a number of occasions and has a further 17 bans amounting to 76 years off the road.