18-year-old fined £750 after guilty plea
A teenager has been fined £750 after buying a car on Facebook and then failing to give police information about who was driving it shortly afterwards.
Neil Clague, of Anagh Coar Road, appeared at Douglas Courthouse where he pleaded guilty to the offence.
The court heard the 18-year-old had purchased the Jaguar on 6 December last year; later that night it was seen on Mooragh Promenade in Ramsey but didn’t stop when police tried to pull it over.
It was later found on Baldrine Road; Clague was arrested after he was found hiding at the back of it and another man was seen running away from it through a field.
He told police he hadn’t been driving but failed to tell officers who had.
Fining Clague, and ordering him to pay prosecution costs of £125, Magistrates told him: “You’re only 18. Cars are not toys and neither are they part of a computer game.”
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