How were 6 points accrued on a non existent license in 2016?🤔 Don’t insurance companies ask for driving license details?🤔 Is the Earth really flat?🤔 So many questions to find answers to. Time for a drink.☺ï¸
I could be wrong, but you can drive on some foreign licences for a year or so after coming into the UK before passing your test here. He came to the UK in 2015 so they probably came in his first year. He might have passed his test in Cameroon rather than France meaning he needs to pass the test. A lot of foreign licence holders don't bother getting a licence after that period as they just think "well ive been driving for a year here so what's the problem?".
Unfair to call him a liar about Rodriguez. Nobody really knows for sure what was said, other than Bong and Rodriguez - and even then only Rodriguez can be truely sure. The judgement did not prove him to be a liar, it just rightly came to the decision that nobody could prove Rodriguez said what Bing thought was said. It was quite plausible that Bong, a native French speaker, just misheard.
This case however does not shed him in the best light as it suggests dishonesty - he has driven without a licence for a few years and he will have insurance where he will have had to say he was a UK licence holder.