A MUSSELBURGH builder has been banned from driving after he admitted failing to insure his vehicle for the seventh time.

Paul King, of New Street, was caught behind the wheel on his home street by police officers last September 6, who carried out checks on the vehicle and its driver and discovered there was no insurance registered.

King’s solicitor said that his 39-year-old client was a self-employed builder contractor and employed four workmen.

He said: “Mr King was coming home from work and he is normally driven around by his employees. However, on that day he was the last at the site and had taken the car home.

“He tells me his insurance had expired a week previously.”

The solicitor added that King insured his vehicle as soon as he got home from speaking to the police but that “he should have been aware” of the lapse.

The court was told that King, who pleaded guilty, had a number of previous driving convictions and was currently serving a driving ban and this conviction was his seventh for driving with no insurance since 2004.

JP Ailsa Slack sentenced King to a further 17-month road ban and fined him £500.