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An 81-year-old woman already serving a four-month jail term for making her neighbours' lives hell has been found guilty of driving offences. An 81-year-old woman serving a four-month jail term for making her neighbours' lives hell has now been found guilty of driving offences.
Dorothy Evans, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire was convicted of three driving offences at a special hearing at Cardiff Crown Court. Dorothy Evans, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire reversed into a parked car and did not tell the owner.
She was given a 12 month conditional discharge, was disqualified from driving and ordered to pay £100 costs. Evans, who appeared at Cardiff Crown Court wearing a salmon-pink suit and a white summer hat, denied the offences.
Ms Evans will remain in custody for the earlier offences until 16 June. She was banned from driving until she takes another test, and fined £100. Evans will be in custody until 16 June.
Earlier this year the pensioner was convicted of harassment and six breaches of her Asbo. Earlier this year she was found guilty of one count of harassment and six breaches of her Anti-social Behaviour Order (Asbo).
Friday's special hearing of Caerphilly Magistrates court found her guilty of driving without due care and attention, failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident. I'm 100% it was Mrs Evans in the car, I saw her hat Thomas Frost, witness
Provisional licence She was sentenced to six months in jail, but had her sentence reduced to four months by the Court of Appeal in London.
The case took place at the crown court, as it has better facilities to deal with the pensioner's hearing problems. Friday's special hearing before magistrates found her guilty of driving without due care and attention, failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident on 20 October 2005.
Ms Evans' licence has been endorsed, and she will have to take another driving test, although she will be allowed a provisional licence. The case took place at Cardiff Crown Court, as it has better facilities to deal with the pensioner's hearing problems.
One of four witnesses to appear told the court how he had been walking near Ms Evans's home when he saw her driving up an alleyway near her house and then reversing back down it. She appeared in the dock and told the magistrates she was feeling faint and had not eaten and she was worried about her medication.
He said he heard a bang, and turned around and saw that she had collided with a car in the main road. But the request by her solicitor to adjourn the hearing was turned down.
The witness was asked whether as a youngster he had thrown stones and insulted Ms Evans, but he denied ever having done so. Rolled back
Feeling faint The court heard from 18-year-old Thomas Frost, who said he witnessed Evans driving up an alleyway near her home.
Earlier in the hearing, the pensioner appeared in the dock to request an adjournment saying she was not well enough to give evidence, but the magistrates refused to grant her request. "I turned left to go up the alleyway and squeezed past her car," he said. "She couldn't go any further up the alleyway because there are bollards in the way.
She had told them she was feeling faint and had not eaten and she was worried about her medication. "She rolled back down the alleyway and she didn't look to see if there were any cars coming and went straight into a parked Ford Ka."
In the past Ms Evans has been accused by a judge of frustrating court processes after failing to appear for sentencing on the grounds of ill health. Hashim Salmman, defending, asked Mr Frost if he had ever thrown stones at Mrs Evans' windows or insulted her, but he denied ever having done so.
The driving offences all took place on 20 October 2005. Mr Salmman suggested he was mistaken about the identity of the driver of the K-registration Metro.
But Mr Frost replied: "I'm 100% it was Mrs Evans in the car. I saw her hat."
Mr Frost also told the court there had been a "bunch of 10 youths" heading into the alleyway prior to the incident. The owner of the Ford Ka told the court the cost of repairing it was estimated at £500-£600.
Evans was given a 12-month conditional discharge, as well as having her licence endorsed. However, she will be allowed a provisional licence until she passes another driving test.