69-year-old Terence Wolfe has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £400 compensation for stealing a car which he then crashed, causing over £2,000 of damage.
Wolfe, of no fixed address but previously of Berry Close in Newport, has been sentenced at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court after previously pleading guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and driving without insurance. He also appeared on a charge of criminal damage to a cell at Newport Police Station, damage caused on 26th August. It was on 23rd August that the pensioner stole a Ford Mondeo from an industrial estate in Bowcombe in a row over work being carried out to his own car by a local garage. The black Mondeo ST – which had keys in the ignition – belonged to an employee of the garage. The vehicle was reported stolen to Police and was located by officers on St George’s Way, by the Asda roundabout, late that same evening. Significant damage had been caused to the front end, which led to the vehicle being written off by the insurance company. At a hearing on 30th November, Magistrates handed Terence Wolfe a 12-month community order with 25 rehabilitation days attached. He was banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £567.23 in compensation, as well as a £80 fine, £85 costs and a £114 surcharge.
