AN Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder sufferer may have breached a three-year-driving ban because his condition caused him to act without thinking, a court heard.

Father-of-five Scott O'Connor's Ford Sierra was spotted at a filling station in Dorcan Way on Sunday five months into the ban, prosecutor Richard Thomas told Swindon magistrates.

O'Connor of Priory Road, Park South, admitted driving while disqualified and having no insurance.

Mr Thomas said the defendant had a substantial record of similar offences. His disqualification in May was for having excess alcohol and he had been banned before that for driving while disqualified.

Lee Mott, defending, asked the bench to delay sentencing to give time for his client to undergo treatment for the condition that is more widely known in children.

Mr Mott explained that he had been on medication, but that it was not proving as effective as it had in the past and he was becoming more aggressive, found it difficult to get up in the mornings and was unable to concentrate symptoms synonymous with the condition. It was an illness that caused a lack of forethought and a tendency to do silly things.

He said O'Connor had been intending to sell the car when it was seen and stopped at the filling station was thinking of taking it off his hands.

The bench decided to defer sentencing him until January 10.