TRUCK driver Clifford Davis has been jailed for 16 weeks after he was caught behind the wheel while disqualified.

The 50-year-old got a job driving articulated lorries despite the fact he was banned from the road six months before.

Town magistrates heard that Davis was stopped in his Iveco artic on Shrivenham Road on the morning of Tuesday, March 4.

Frank Murphy, prosecuting, said the vehicle was spot checked shortly before 11am.

Mr Murphy said that Davis was first banned from the road in September last year and again in January when he was convicted of driving while disqualified.

Davis, of Greenbank, Hadfield, Manchester, pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance. He also asked for nine similar offences to be considered.

Lee Mott, defending, said that Davis was working trying to save £600 to get a forklift truck driver's licence so he could get a job in a factory.

Jailing him for 16 weeks Simon Wolfensohn, chairman of the bench, said "This was particularly serious because of the flagrant disregard of a previous court order and because you were driving a heavy goods vehicle."

He was also banned for six months to run concurrently with the existing disqualification.