A JUDGE has ordered a probation report on a single mum caught driving without insurance or a licence on three different occasions.
Thirty-year-old Dagmara Korytkowska, from Lawnsdale, Ballybofey, was stopped three times in five months, Letterkenny District Court heard.
Her solicitor Fiona Brown said Korytkowska didn’t realised she had already been banned from driving from an earlier offence.
The mother of three was detected driving without a licence or insurance in November 2012 and again in both March and April 2013.
On the last two occasions the cars she was driving didn’t have an NCT certificate and the vehicles were seized.
On all of the detections she had promised to produce documentation at Ballybofey Garda Station but had failed to turn up to do so.
Solicitor Ms Brown said that her client believed she was covered by insurance because she was a named driver on a friend’s policy.
She is a single mother and was taking her children to school.
But Judge Kelly said: “If she thought she was insured she would have gone to the Garda station which leads me to believe she knew she wasn’t insured.
“Her car was actually seized on two of these occasions.”
He asked for a probation report and adjourned sentencing until February 17.