[The Age | Text-only index]     Tevez given driving ban after
letter confusion  Date: January 17 2013  LONDON: Manchester City
striker Carlos Tevez was disqualified from driving for six
months on Wednesday, after a court heard he failed to understand
a letter sent to him by police.  The 28-year-old Argentina
international, who did not attend the hearing at a court in
Manchester, was also ordered to pay £1,540 ($2500) in fines and
costs.  Tevez pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to provide
information relating to incidents when his car was clocked
speeding.  His solicitor, Gwyn Lewis, told the court he did not
recognise the word 'constabulary' on the letters he received
from police.  "He does understand the word 'police', but not
more complicated words. The letters are written from Cheshire
Constabulary and the word police doesn't appear on it anywhere,"
Lewis said.  "The word constabulary is not one that is
recognised internationally, but of course police is.  "The
correspondence was not dealt with prope