A DRIVER who got behind the wheel without a licence or insurance gave police false details in a bid to avoid being caught, magistrates were told. 

However, police eventually snared 24-year-old David Noakes when they realised he had lied to them and turned up outside his door in Tilehurst.

Noakes was arrested at the scene, months after a silver BMW he was driving was spotted on a number plate recognition camera.

Today, he admitted a string of driving offences as well as obstructing a police officer and was fined hundreds of pounds.

Prosecuting, Joanna McGlew told Reading Magistrates' Court: "On August 30 last year at approximately 8.30pm police stopped a silver BMW which was picked up on a number plate recognition camera.

“Checks revealed the vehicle was uninsured.

“The defendant gave police his name as Daniel Weeks.

“Inquiries revealed the male who had been driving was not Mr Weeks and the defendant was identified as the driver. Police attended his address, saw the silver BMW and he was arrested.”

Noakes was not legally represented in court, but he admitted to magistrates he was driving the silver car without a licence.

Speaking in his own defence, he said: "I have no excuse, I have pleaded guilty. I was pulled over and I panicked.

“I don't have a driving licence.”

Noakes, aged 24 and of Romsey Road, Tilehurst, admitted a single count of driving without insurance, one charge of driving without a licence and another count of obstructing a police officer.

He was disqualified from driving for the next four months and fined a total of £515.

Ms Glen, chairman of the bench, added: “These offences are connected. Not having insurance or a licence when driving is clearly quite a serious offence.

“You should not have been driving that car.”