Overview
- Worthing Magistrates’ Court sentenced him on April 27 to five penalty points, a £293 fine, £120 in costs and a £117 surcharge, adding points to a previously clean licence.
- Police said the Land Rover Defender was officially recorded at 96mph on the M25 and reached about 105mph after he joined the M26 on January 9 at around 3:20pm.
- An officer in an unmarked car reported repeated tailgating to under five metres, including about two metres at 80mph, on damp roads with heavy traffic captured on dashcam.
- His lawyers said he was rushing an unwell cat to the vet and apologised, and police withdrew a separate allegation of driving without due care and attention.
- He pleaded guilty in writing under the Single Justice Procedure, a process that lets a single magistrate decide minor offences on paperwork without the driver attending court.