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| Carlos Tévez admits driving while disqualified and without insurance | |
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| The Manchester City striker Carlos Tévez admitted in court on Wednesday to driving while disqualified and without insurance. | The Manchester City striker Carlos Tévez admitted in court on Wednesday to driving while disqualified and without insurance. |
| The 29-year-old entered his guilty plea in his native Spanish with the aid of an interpreter as he stood in the dock at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court. | The 29-year-old entered his guilty plea in his native Spanish with the aid of an interpreter as he stood in the dock at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court. |
| JPs heard that the Argentinian, who gave his full name as Carlos Alberto Tévez, has not yet got a UK driving licence, partly because he has struggled to pass the theory test, which is conducted in English. | JPs heard that the Argentinian, who gave his full name as Carlos Alberto Tévez, has not yet got a UK driving licence, partly because he has struggled to pass the theory test, which is conducted in English. |
| Tévez pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance after being stopped as he left a golf club in a Porsche Cayenne on the afternoon of 7 March this year following an anonymous tip-off to police. | Tévez pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance after being stopped as he left a golf club in a Porsche Cayenne on the afternoon of 7 March this year following an anonymous tip-off to police. |
| He received a six-month driving ban at Manchester Magistrates' Court in January after pleading guilty to two counts of failing to furnish information relating to incidents in which his Hummer vehicle was clocked speeding. | He received a six-month driving ban at Manchester Magistrates' Court in January after pleading guilty to two counts of failing to furnish information relating to incidents in which his Hummer vehicle was clocked speeding. |
| Kate Marchuk, prosecuting, told the court a police officer was called to the Mottram Hall Hotel and Golf Club in Cheshire at around 4pm on 7 March. | |
| "There had been a call from an anonymous caller, that the defendant had driven a white Range Rover to the golf club whilst disqualified. The officer confirmed this on the Police National Computer." | |
| But Miss Marchuk said Tévez had been disqualified from driving on 16 January, until 25 May. | |
| In fact Tévez, who lives in nearby Alderley Edge, did not get into the Range Rover, but instead at around 5pm left the club, got into a white Porsche Cayenne and drove off. He was stopped nearby and arrested for driving while disqualified and having no insurance. | |
| He told the officer: "I only live down the road. Two minutes." | |
| Tévez was taken to the police station and later bailed but at a second interview made no reply to police questions. | |
| After a short adjournment, Elizabeth Depares, chair of the bench, temporarily deferred passing sentence until Tévez had spoken to a probation officer. He was led from the dock to speak to the officer and will be brought back in due course to be sentenced. | |
| Ms Depares told the court: "We do feel he has served a significant proportion of his disqualification. Therefore on that basis, we have been looking at a starting point of a community order. So therefore we would like Mr Tévez to speak to probation." |