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Thanks for your opinions. He has rooted out all insurances back to 2002, to show he was always covered, and has a perfectly clean licence for 30 years. He's got the SORN, and all his bank statements going back years to show insurance was always paid. The D/D would have shown at the end of the month and he would have noticed then that the wrong insurance had been cancelled, but had still been driving for 11 days without. I just want to point out that you can be the most meticulous, law-abiding person in the world, but in this day and age with Call Centres and on-line banking and what -have -you, it really could happen to anybody. He can only thank God that nothing awful happened in those 11 days. 30 years of careful, legal motoring would have counted for nothing. He is not going to attack the police, annoyed as he is, he is only hoping to show the Magistrates that he doesn't need a deterrent sentence, as it has never happened before, and will not, now, EVER happen again, he'll be paranoid. He is not an avoider, or a daredevil, or a risk taker. It was a mistake by his Insurance Company, but he is culpable, and he knows that. I will let you know how he goes on.