MANCHESTER: Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez has been ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service after driving while disqualified and without insurance.

The 29-year-old of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was also banned from driving for six months and fined £1,000. He was arrested after breaking an earlier driving ban for failing to reply to police letters about speeding.

Magistrates heard Tevez does not have a UK licence because he has struggled to pass the theory test in English.

The Argentina forward was stopped by police on March 7 as he left the Mottram Hall Hotel and Golf Club in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Kate Marchuk, prosecuting, said: “There had been a call from an anonymous caller, that the defendant had driven a white Range Rover to the golf club whilst disqualified.”

In fact Tevez did not get into the Range Rover but left the club at about 17:00 GMT in a white Porsche Cayenne. He was stopped nearby and arrested for driving while disqualified and having no insurance.

He told the officer: “I only live down the road. Two minutes.”

Tevez was taken to the police station and later bailed but at a second interview made no reply to police questions.

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