A REPEAT offender has been banned from the roads after he was caught breaking the limit on a busy Herefordshire main road.
Lewis Hill entered a guilty plea to one count of exceeding a 50 miles per hour speed limit when he appeared before magistrates in Kidderminster in September.
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The court heard from the prosecutor that the 30-year-old had been caught breaking the limit while behind the wheel of a Skoda in a 50 miles per hour zone on the A40 at Pencraig in Herefordshire on May 3.
Hill, of Coney Green, Stourbridge, was fined £576, received six penalty points, and was disqualified from driving for six months, with magistrates saying that a roads ban was obligatory due to repeat offending, but that they had taken his guilty plea into account when imposing the penalty.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £110 and a £230 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.
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