Australia spin great Shane Warne has been banned from driving for 12 months within the European Union, and directed to pay £1845, following a sixth speeding offence in three years.
Warne, who exceeded the imposed speed limit by seven miles per hour in central London’s Kensington area, admitted to the offence, which added to the 15 accumulated penalty points on his license, at the Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court.
Warne is not new to speeding offences. Outside of these six, in 2013, he was fined £500 for speeding at over 100mph on a Scotland motorway.
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This is not the first time Warne has been fined for speeding in the UK[/caption]
The breakdown of his monetary sanction constituted £775 in cost, £900 in fine, and a surcharge of £170. “The purpose of disqualification is to punish and to protect the public and to deter,” Deputy District Judge Adrian Turner told the court. “Between April 2016 and August last year, Warne committed six speeding offences.
“It may well be that none on its own were particularly serious, but for points disqualification purposes, the triviality of the offences is not to be taken into account.
“A period of 12 months is necessary for the purposes I have mentioned.”
