A MAN who has twice been given life bans from the roads tried for the second year in a row to get his licence back.

James Pert made a petition to Dumbarton Sheriff Court last week to have his disqualification from May 2010 lifted.

But Sheriff Maxwell Hendry pointed out that in July 2005, Pert was disqualified for life and there was no application for lifting that ban.

“What is the point?” he asked. “If I grant this, he is still disqualified for life.”

He allowed the application to be withdrawn.

But what was omitted from court was that Pert, of York Street, Drumry, applied last February to get the ban lifted so he could get hotel employment that would include driving duties.

He was banned for a November 2009 incident in the town’s Swindon Street where officers suspected he had consumed alcohol and was over the limit. Pert twice failed to take a breath test and was driving while disqualified and with no insurance.

He had been jailed for more than 11 months for the offence.

He was disqualified for 10 years for failing to provide the breath specimen and banned for life for driving while disqualified.

In February 2016, Sheriff Craig Turnbull told him: “You have managed to be disqualified for life twice and I am not satisfied that at this time it is appropriate to grant this application.”

That application was refused.