A DELIVERY driver who "cut up" a police car at a city junction has been banned from driving for 12 months.

Abdul Mokta didn't have a valid licence, was uninsured and gave the police officer two names and an incorrect birth date when he was stopped on October 25, said Katy Varlow, prosecuting.

He also claimed he didn't recognise a picture of himself as control room staff and the officer tried to establish his true identity.

He was finally definitely identified by a fingerprints test at Fulford Road Police Station.

After looking at his record which started in 1992, York magistrates said he appeared to have "numerous aliases" .

For him, Andrew Craven said Mokta's employers had incorrectly told him he was on the company's insurance. He no longer worked for the company.

He was originally from Bangladesh and had an international driving licence. But he could only drive on it for a year in the UK, and his latest stay in the the UK had lasted six years.

Mokta, 41, of The Green, Acomb, pleaded guilty to careless driving, driving without insurance and without a licence and obstructing a police officer.

Magistrates said he had known he didn't have a valid licence and therefore couldn't be insured to drive.

He was banned from driving for 12 months, fined £360 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £36 statutory surcharge.

Ms Varlow said the police officer was driving along Heworth Green when Mokta failed to give away at the Dodsworth Avenue ahead of him and turned so fast into Heworth Green he went onto the wrong side of the carriageway and the policeman had to brake.

The officer followed Mokta at 35 mph onto Heworth Road and Melrosegate where he pulled him over.

Mr Craven said the junction incident had been a "momentary lapse of attention".

Mokta had gone back to Bangladesh for a time after his initial visit to the UK but had returned to Britain for family reasons.

Although he had been in trouble with the police in the past, his last conviction was in 2014.