A CARLISLE Crown Court judge has set the sentencing date for a young Whitehaven man who has admitted dangerous driving.

Logan Corrie, 18, had earlier admitted the offence, committed on August 29 last year. After watching a video of the driving, Judge Michael Fanning told the teenager that it amounted to a “stupid piece of driving”.

Corrie committed the offence as he drove a Seat Ibiza dangerously on the A5086, on Frizington Road.

He was scheduled to be sentenced this week, but this was not done because Probation staff had been unable to compile a background background report because they were unable to complete an interview with the teenager. 

The judge accepted that the defendant had never before been in trouble of this kind and there may have been confusion about what was required of him.

But the judge also wondered why the teenager, who was not legally represented for the hearing, had failed to answer emails and phone calls from the probation staff who needed to speak to him for the report.

He told Corrie, of Cumberland Road, Hensingham, Whitehaven, to ensure he spoke to a solicitor and to keep in touch with Probation. “You will come back here on September 18, and you will be sentenced, whether there is a report or not,” said the judge.

The judge noted that some judges would have locked a defendant who had failed to keep appointments and kept them in custody until sentence.