A HEREFORDSHIRE van driver has been banned from the roads after he was caught using his mobile phone while behind the wheel.
Samuel Martin Hedley appeared before magistrates in Hereford in May after he was proven guilty of one offence of using a handheld mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle on a road at an earlier hearing.
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The court heard from the prosecutor that the 27-year-old had been caught using a handheld mobile phone while behind the wheel of a Ford Transit on the A465 Belmont Road in Hereford on September 6.
Hedley, of Court Orchard, Fownhope, was fined £200, received six penalty points, and was disqualified from driving for six months, with magistrates saying a roads ban was obligatory due to repeat offending.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £90 and a £200 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.
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