Best-selling crime author Lynda La Plante is disqualified from driving for six months following multiple driving offences. BBC News reports that she is banned from driving for the period set by the court. Sky News adds that La Plante told the court, tearfully, that a driving ban would effectively end her career. The accounts agree on the length of the disqualification and that it follows offences heard in court. They also agree that La Plante opposes or regrets the outcome and argues that it would have a major impact on her work. The reports do not provide further specifics of the offences in the material provided, nor do they describe the precise reasoning of the court beyond the fact of the disqualification and her statements about career impact. La Plante’s ban is therefore presented as the court’s decision after offences were established, with the main additional detail being her personal account of the consequences for her career.