last week with one of the men he tried to help.

Allan E. Gilbert was nearing the end of the seven-week tent crusade when he realised he was running low on gas and had to take a trip to a service station.

He drove off, but was stopped by Police who discovered he was banned from driving until June next year.

Thirty nine year-old Gilbert, of Riviera Crescent, Southampton, admitted driving while disqualified.

He told magistrate the Wor. John Judge: "I was conducting the crusade and there were some 15 people who were homeless. We were trying to find places for them to stay.

"I needed some gas in my vehicle. I was going to the gas station for someone else, who had a licence, to come and drive. The officer caught me.'' Gilbert said one of the homeless men was Arthur Leroy Burrows, who minutes earlier had appeared separately before Mr. Judge charged with trespassing.

Mr. Judge told Gilbert: "In doing your good works you are not entitled to flout the law.'' He took him off the road for another 18 months, fined him $350 and gave him a suspended three-month prison sentence.

Burrows received a conditional discharge after sleeping off drink in a derelict building.

The 48-year-old, of South Terrace, Pembroke, admitted trespassing in the building in Union Street, belonging to the Bermuda Nursing Association.