Offender with 321 previous convictions ‘should be in record books’

A judge told a driver and garage worker with 31 previous convictions for driving without insurance that he should contact the editor of the Guinness Book of Records to have the offences included.

At Killaloe District Court yesterday, Garda Insp John O’Sullivan told Judge Patrick Durcan that Co Limerick man and car enthusiast, Martin McNamara, 25, had a total of 321 previous convictions. The majority related to road traffic offences.

Judge Durcan said the figure was easily the highest number of previous convictions he had encountered on the bench.