TT marshal also had no insurance
A 55-year-old TT marshal has been banned from driving after admitting forging a tax disc to save money.
Adrian Lawrence Quayle Bell pleaded guilty to that charge and having no insurance when he appeared before magistrates at Douglas courthouse.
He was stopped by police at 11.55pm on 3 January as he drove along Douglas Road in Castletown.
Officers carrying out an automated vehicle check discovered his car hadn’t been taxed for almost five years, but saw the vehicle had what appeared to be a current tax disc.
They quizzed Bell about the disc after noticing its poor quality, and after denying anything was wrong he eventually admitted he’d printed it himself.
When he was asked why he’d forged it, he replied: “To save money”.
He was asked to produce his documents at a police station, where his insurance policy turned out to have started the day after he’d been caught.
Bell was banned from the roads for eight weeks, fined a total of £1,150 and ordered to pay £50 prosecution costs.
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