A MAN banned for using his mobile phone when driving is among three York and North Yorkshire men convicted in their absence recently of motoring offences.

Monty Tunney, 34, of Outgang Lane, Osbaldwick, was ordered to pay £706 consisting of a £440 fine, a £176 statutory surcharge and £90 prosecution costs after he was convicted at Sheffield Magistrates Court  of driving without a full driving licence and without insurance in Doncaster. He was given six penalty points.

Two men were convicted at Harrogate Magistrates Court. 

Peter Charlton, 28, of Shipton-by-Beningbrough, was convicted of using a mobile phone while driving and was banned from driving for 12 months. He was ordered to pay £344 consisting of a £220 fine, a £34 statutory surcharge and £90 prosecution costs.

Tony Kitson, 54, of Hope Street, central York, was banned from driving for six months after he was convicted of driving without insurance and ordered to pay £574 consisting of a £440 fine, a £44 statutory surcharge and £90 prosecution costs.

Jonathan Andrew Hobson, of Grimston Park Mews, Grimston, Tadcaster, contacted Bradford Magistrates Court after he was convicted in his absence of failure to tell police who was driving his car when it was speeding in Leeds.  The conviction was overturned, he pleaded guilty to speeding, and was ordered to pay a £291 fine with a £116 statutory surcharge. His penalty points were reduced to three.