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Dundee driver with ‘worst record’ sheriff ever seen jailed for driving disqualified for the 26th time

A sheriff told Allan Scott "You have the worst record for driving whilst disqualified that I have ever seen" and then banned him from the roads for life.

A 20mph zone sign.
More roads in Dundee could have a 20mph limit. Image: Andrew Stewart/DC Thomson.

A Dundee man caught driving while disqualified on 25 previous occasions has been locked up and banned from the roads for life.

Sheriff Sara Matheson told Allan Scott he has the worst driving record she has ever seen and said there was “no alternative” except a period of imprisonment.

Scott, 39, had already racked up more than two dozen convictions for ignoring court-imposed driving bans when police caught him behind the wheel on the Black Isle on October 4 this year.

As well as being uninsured, he also accelerated away from the officers, narrowly missing one.

Scott, 39, appeared via videolink at Inverness Sheriff Court for sentencing on charges of dangerous driving, while disqualified and without insurance.

The incident happened on Millbank Road, Munlochy, and Scott accelerated away from police at speed through residential areas with a 20mph speed limit and on rural roads.

‘Excessive speeds’

Scott also drove “in close proximity” to an officer as he failed to stop and travelled at “excessive speeds for the road”.

Scott’s solicitor Alexandra Short told the court her client was someone who struggled with his mental health and would get behind the wheel as a way of addressing those issues.

She told Sheriff Sara Matheson Scott had “panicked” when officers tried to stop him.

“He is aware that he shouldn’t be driving at all,” she conceded.

Sheriff Matheson told Scott: “You have got the worst record for driving whilst disqualified that I have ever seen.

“I counted 25 convictions in relation to this offence, which is in itself a serious offence.

“I can see no alternative but to impose a prison sentence.”

She jailed Scott, of St Fillans Place, Dundee, for eight months backdated to October 5 of this year.

Sheriff Matheson also banned him from the roads for life.

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