A MOTHER hit out at Burnley magistrates after being banned from driving.

Amanda Jane Smith, 21, who has a disabled daughter, asked the bench: "Do you not think we have suffered enough?"

She added: "That doesn't give my daughter access to anything except the front door." Smith, of Browning Close, Colne, was banned for 12 months under the totting-up procedure and fined £100.

She had been convicted on three counts of no insurance, three counts of no test certificate and one of driving a vehicle with a registration mark failing to conform, between last July and November.

Smith, who claimed she was insured, said he had been ill and not been able to bring the documents to court.

She was told by the magistrates she had 21 days to lodge an appeal against the sentence.

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