Cheers for the reply. The total conviction was just a fine, no suspended sentence or community order or anything else. I will see if the Uni will let me know if anybody has ever done a PGCE course with my conviction for starters thanks a lot 

I've tried to reply a few times. Let's see if this one works! 

In principle all cases are handled on their merit. A rough rule seems to be if you are allowed study for your certificate, then you are in with a shout subject to certain criteria. The main one seems to be that any sort of prison sentence, including suspended, would be a difficult hurdle to overcome.

However, I could only find the Scottish rules online. England, Wales and NI are probably out there somewhere.

Criminal convictions | General Teaching Council for Scotland (gtcs.org.uk)