Reeves escapes jail sentence

Vic Reeves arrives for court
11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Comedian Vic Reeves was banned from driving for 32 months today after he admitted crashing his vintage Jaguar while drunk and then leaving the scene.

The 46-year-old was more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed into a parked car near his home in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, on March 25.

Reeves - real name Jim Moir - did not even notice he had hit the car, in which one of his neighbours was sitting, and careered up a bank and into a fence before driving on to his home.

He pleaded guilty at Maidstone Magistrates' Court today to leaving the scene of the collision, having already admitted drink-driving at a hearing earlier this month.

Sentencing the comedian, chairwoman of the bench Lizzie Hughes said he could have faced a jail term, but would receive a lower punishment because of his early guilty pleas, contrition, and lack of previous offences.

She sentenced Reeves to a total of 100 hours community punishment order for both counts, and disqualified him from driving for 32 months.

The driving ban will be reduced to two years if he pays £200 to complete a drink-driving rehabilitation course.

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