Tevez gets community service order

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service after pleading guilty to a pair of driving offences.

The Argentine has also been handed another six month disqualification from driving and a fine of 1000 pounds after being caught driving while disqualified and without insurance.

Magistrate Elizabeth Depares ruled that the 29-year-old ‘had served a significant proportion of his disqualification’ when he was stopped by police, and as such a community penalty was preferable to a custodial sentence.

Tevez’s lawyer Gwyn Lewis stated that ‘the whole episode … has been completely alien to (Tevez) and very frightening. He has full understanding of the seriousness of this.”

Tevez entered a guity plea after being stopped by police outside of Mottram Hall Hotel and Golf Club in Cheshire on March 7 following an anonymous tip-off.

When stopped, Tevez told the officer: “I only live down the road. Two minutes.”