A THURROCK councillor waiting to learn if she will be disqualified from driving will not be made aware of her fate for another couple of months.

Thurrock Nub News recently reported on the pending trial of Abosede (Abbie) Modupe Akinbohun, 55, admitted five charges of speeding in the 40mph restricted zone created for the safety of roadworkers widening the dual carriageway between the Orsett Cock roundabout and the Manorway Junction.

The sentencing of Cllr Akinbohun, who recently caused a stir when she switched allegiance in her South Chafford ward to the Conservative party, having been elected in 2018 under a Labour banner, has now been delayed because, says the court, of 'exceptional circumstances that have arisen from the Covid-19 virus. The adjournment is one of many that is helping reduce the number of people that are having to attend the Magistrates' Court and enable urgent and priority cases to proceed in the meantime.'

Cllr Akinbohun was due to attend Colchester Magistrates Court, which has been significantly affected by the virus backlog. However, plenty of motoring-related cases have been heard recently in regional magistrates courts.

They include:

ANDREI Levinta, 37, of Danbury Crescent, South Ockendon, admitted drink driving.

He was fined £620 and ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £167 and banned from holding a licence for 12 months.

TRAVELLING seven miles above the permitted limit of 30mph on lodge Lane Grays, cost Warren John Allden, of Erriff Drive, South Ockendon a £146 fine.

He was also ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £122 and received three penalty points.

AYODELE Awosika, 24, of Bryanston Road, Tilbury, admitted driving nine miles an hour above the permitted 50mph on the A13 near North Stifford and was fined £107.

He was also ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £122 and received three penalty points.

A DRIVER accused of being under the influence of drink but failing to provide a sample to police will be tried at Basildon Magistrates Court on 16 June.

He did not attend an earlier hearing at the court, which was told he was of 'bad character', but Raj Kumar, 43, of Norfolk Place, Chafford Hundred, denies the charge.

STEVEN Beasley, 63, of Sycamore Way, South Ockendon, admitted driving ten miles an hour above the permitted 50mph on the A13 near Aveley and was fined £220.

He was also ordered to pay costs of £90 and received three penalty points.

And a further speeding charge against Beasley, of driving 12 miles over the 30mph limit on the A13 at Benfleet was proved. That resulted in four penalty points, a fine of £440 and costs and a surcharge totalling £134.

NOT wearing a seatbelt when driving on Hogg Lane in Grays cost Vasile Bobocica, 36, of William Street, Grays, a fine of £220 and an order to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling £122.

And the same penalty was imposed on Daryl Anthony Mercer, 55, of High Street Aveley for not wearing a seatbelt while driving in Southend.

Being a passenger in a vehicle and not wearing a seatbelt resulted in a £100 fine for Jake Sanders, 20 of St Francis Way, Grays. He also had to pay a surcharge and costs totalling £122.

BEN Christopher Cavanagh, 30 of Abbotts Drive, Stanford-le-Hope will have to face magistrates at Basildon on 29 April to learn his fate. He faces possible disqualification after exceeding the A13 speed limit of 50mph near North Stifford by 11mph.

CHALMERS Conceicao, 32, of Florence Close, Grays, was fined £220 after being found guilty of driving through roadworks near Stanford-le-Hope ten miles an hour in excess of a 40mph restriction. She was also ordred to pay a surcharge and costs totalling £122 and given three penalty points.

JOSE Antonio Michael, 48, of Easington Way, South Ockendon, admitted breaching a temporary 50mph limit on the A12 by 20mph. He was fined £542 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge and costs totalling £144 and received four penalty points.

IJEOMA Blessing Obi, 38, was found guilty of speeding on the A13 near Aveley and fined £220 with costs and a victim surcharge totalling £122. She received three penalty points.

JAMES Cole, 31, of Monarch Close, Tilbury, admitted drug driving and was fined £250. He was ordered to pay a surcharge and costs totalling £117 and was disqualified from holding a licence for 12 months.

JOHN William Durbin, 34, of Wellington Road, Tilbury, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance. He was fined £212 and ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £117.

His repeat offending means his driving ban has been extended to 12 years.

DOMAS Jankauskas, 26, a Lithuanian who lives at Lennox Close, Chafford Hundred, admitted drink driving. He was banned for 18 months, fined £350 and ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £40.

GIDDEON Nwogu, 45, of Cowper Avenue, Tilbury, admitted failing to give police information about the driver of a vehicle in which and offence was suspected of being committed.

He was fined £200 and ordered to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £117 and his licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

A SOUTH Ockendon man will face ten motoring offence charges on 1 May when he is scheduled to appear at Basildon Magistrates' Court.

Ausrius Dackevicious, 23, of Medlar drive faces speeding charges and not supplying information to the police about who was the driver of a vehicle in which and offence had been suspected of being committed.

GRAYS man Jack Alexander Dinnadge, 23, of Lodge Lane, Grays, was cleared of charges of speeding and not giving information to police when he appeared before Basildon Magistrates' Court. No evidence was offered and the charges were dismissed.

MICHAEL Dauncey, 65, of Centurian Way, Purfleet, admitted failing to give police information about the driver of a vehicle in which an offence was suspected of being committed. He was fined £120 and ordered to pay a surcharge and costs totalling £130 and awarded six penalty points.

JAMIE Robinson, 31, of Augusta Road, Stanford-le-Hope, was remanded on unconditional bail to appear for trial at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in May charged with drink driving, not having a licence and driving without insurance.

ROMANIAN Florin Stinga, 32, of Long Lane, Grays, admitted drug driving and was fined £300. He was also banned from driving for 12 months and ordreed to pay costs and a surcharge totalling £177.