A man from County Donegal was given a suspended prison term for having someone else take his driver’s theory test so he could get a temporary license, reports The Mirror.
Bobby Cirpaci appeared before Judge Ciaran Liddy at a special session of the Letterkenny District Court. The event was a part of a larger national Garda inquiry, the court heard. Cirpaci, 29, is accused of committing the crime at the National Driver Licence Service in Letterkenny on August 7, 2019.
He is accused of having a fake document in his possession, the Driver Theory Test Certificate, which he knew or suspected to be a fake document, with the goal of tricking someone else into thinking it was authentic, reports The Mirror.
The 29-year-old accused man showed up to his neighbourhood Driving Test Centre with a certificate stating he had taken and passed the theory test, according to Garda Inspector Tony Byrne. Later, a Gardaà inquiry verified that someone else had taken the theoretical test.
The court was informed that Cirpaci of Celtic Apartments, Pearse Road, Letterkenny, had been granted a licence, but that licence had now been revoked. The accused’s lawyer, Mr. Patsy Gallagher, stated that the photo that was provided with the theory exam was the “slight” problem for his client, reports The Mirror.
He noted that the accusation was “very seriously” but that Cirpacci had committed a “stupid mistake” and was now paying for it, adding that his client had never been reported to the Garda.
Cirpaci was the ‘customer’ in the hoax, not the organiser, he maintained, and his client was very sorry.
Judge Liddy enquired as to whether the accused man had been operating a motor vehicle since obtaining the provisional licence by deception. Inspector Byrne stated that there was no evidence to support his claim that he was certain, reports The Mirror.
In actuality, the defendants had purposefully weakened a governmental agency, according to Judge Liddy. It’s possible that he was operating a vehicle while failing a suitable test. He faces the possibility of a suspended sentence. It is unacceptable that there was a conscious attempt to weaken one of our government agencies.
“There is no evidence you were driving but you may have been doing so and possibly endangering other road-users,” he said, reports The Mirror.
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