A DRIVER convicted of having no insurance has been given an absolute dishcharge.

Magistrates said Hubert Paul Podstawski, 20, has been led to believe that when he drove a 05-reg Renault Savic on Bassett Avenue in Southampton on March 22 he was insured.

The case had been proved under the single justice procedure but Mr Podstawski, of Wykeham Place, Stanmore, was at Basingstoke Magistrates Court to hear the sentence.