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A BANNED driver put a Spar receipt on his windscreen and tried to pass it off as an insurance disc, a court heard. Gardaí stopped father-of-three Derek Mason (41) at a checkpoint and found the receipt, with a month and year written on it, displayed where his insurance should have been. Judge Bryan Smyth sentenced him to four months in prison. The accused, with an address at Rutland Cottages, Dublin 1, admitted having no insurance or licence and using a false insurance disc. The prosecuting garda told Dublin District Court he was conducting a checkpoint at Buckingham Street Lower last February 4 when he saw a car driven by the accused approaching. ....