A MAN was jailed after admitting driving when disqualified while he was serving a suspended sentence for dangerous driving.

Darren Waite, 28, of E Row, Forgeside, Blaenavon, appeared at Newport Crown Court for sentence after pleading guilty to driving while disqualified, driving with no insurance and taking a vehicle without consent on March 26 this year.

By committing these offences, the court heard, Waite was also in breach of a suspended sentence he had been given on October 11, last year.

Waite had been sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for 18 months for dangerous driving, driving without insurance and failing to stop when required by a police constable.

Prosecutor David Pugh said the defendant, a mechanic, had his father’s Peugeot 206 car at his house as he was going to replace the clutch.

But on March 26, Waite used the car, without his father’s permission, to collect and tow another car, a Vauxhall Corsa, which he was also going to carry out some work on.

Waite drove the Peugeot 206 which was towing the Vauxhall Corsa with a rope. The Vauxhall Corsa was being steered by a friend of Waite.

But the Vauxhall Corsa collided with a BMW.

The incident caused the BMW to collide with a Renault Clio. The court heard Waite said a recovery vehicle was due to pick up the Vauxhall Corsa but had not shown up and so he had taken his father’s car to pick it up.

The court heard he had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.

Recorder David Miller reactivated the suspended prison sentence but reduced it to three months. He also sentenced Waite to one month imprisonment for driving while disqualified, which will be served consecutively. No separate penalty was given for the other charges but Waite had his licence endorsed and is disqualified from driving for the next year. He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £80.