AN ISLE of Wight man must fork out more than £600 in court fees after being caught keeping an unlicensed vehicle on the road.

The case of Frederick Bray, of Station Gardens, Sandown, was heard before Southampton magistrates on Friday, September 30.

The 59-year-old denied, and was found guilty in his absence, of keeping a vehicle without a valid licence, on Faulkner Lane, on March 7 of last year.

Bray was fined £300 and ordered to pay costs of £200 and a vehicle excise back duty of £180.