King’s Lynn man Konstantis Matels pleads guilty to failing to provide specimen and driving a motor vehicle without licence or insurance

A father of three who crashed his car has been banned from the roads for more than two years.

Konstantis Matels, of Hillen Road, Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court, pleading guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis as well as driving a motor vehicle not in accordance with a licence and without insurance.

Prosecutor Wendy Davidson told the court that on October 1, police were called to a single-vehicle crash on Main Road in Clenchwarton.

The defendant had got out of the car and left the scene before officers began searching the area.

Officers found the 34-year-old hiding in bushes nearby.

He refused to give a roadside breath sample and later refused at the station.

Matels was last before court last November for being in possession of class B drugs.

In mitigation, solicitor Charlotte Winchester said the defendant had found out that his long-term partner and mother of their three children – aged three, ten and 14 – was cheating on him.

“He went to see his father when the accident happened”, Ms Winchester said.

Matels sustained “nasty injuries” to his hand.

The self-employed builder was handed a 29-month disqualification and a 15-month community order for 200 hours of unpaid work to be carried out. He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £114 and court costs of £85.

His licence was also endorsed with no separate penalty.