A DISQUALIFIED driver was found behind the wheel on two occasions.

Nicholas Alun Hughes, 27, was caught on October 30 driving a Ford Focus at Gwernaffield Road in Mold.

Then he was caught driving the same car at Denbigh Road in Mold on November 27.

Hughes, of Leete Mews in Village Road, Cadole, near Mold, admitted both offences and was fined £375 with £85 costs and a £37 surcharge.

His current driving ban was due to end next week but he was disqualified for a further six months when he appeared at North East Wales Magistrates Court at Mold.

Prosecutor Helen Tench said Hughes had been disqualified for six months in June under the totting up procedure.

Bethan Jones, defending, said the points were imposed for not having insurance.

Her client had organised insurance for his vehicle and drove off from a garage but it took half an hour for the email to get onto the system and at the precise moment he was stopped he did not have insurance although he had paid for it.

He was still paying for his insurance but it could not be valid because he was banned.

The Mold court heard Hughes had recently broken up with his partner and she had sole custody of their four-year-old child.

There had been difficulties over access, he was extremely distressed about it and he accepted that he drove on two occasions “to plead with her so that he could see his little one”.

Probation officer Andrew Connah said Hughes had enjoyed access to his son until September when his former partner started a new relationship.

For reasons he did not know, he and his parents had not been allowed contact.

In frustration he accepted that he had driven to try to get contact with his son.

It had affected his mental health and he had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

Mr Connah said Hughes, who now lived with a new partner, was working six days a week in Anglesey.

Magistrates warned him that if he drove while disqualified again then he could go into custody.