Rio Ferdinand BANNED for 6 months
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Banned Rio Ferdinand faces 'serious inconvenience'
Rio Ferdinand's solicitor says the footballer faces six months of "serious incovenience" after being banned from driving.
The 24-year-old Manchester United player, who did not attend Leeds Magistrates Court, was also fined £2,500 and ordered to pay costs of £3,000.
The England defender was convicted earlier this month of speeding on the M1 motorway near Temple Newsam, Leeds in his Cadillac Escalade.
He was clocked speeding at an average of 92mph on the southbound carriageway on March 1 last year.
District Judge Roy Anderson told Ferdinand's solicitor, Barry Warburton, that he was imposing the maximum fine and a six-month ban.
He said: "That is the maximum, but it is plainly derisory when compared with his earnings."
Ferdinand, of Linton Common, West Yorkshire, who already had nine points for previous speeding convictions, was also given six more points for the latest driving offence.
Rio Ferdinand's solicitor says the footballer faces six months of "serious incovenience" after being banned from driving.
The 24-year-old Manchester United player, who did not attend Leeds Magistrates Court, was also fined £2,500 and ordered to pay costs of £3,000.
The England defender was convicted earlier this month of speeding on the M1 motorway near Temple Newsam, Leeds in his Cadillac Escalade.
He was clocked speeding at an average of 92mph on the southbound carriageway on March 1 last year.
District Judge Roy Anderson told Ferdinand's solicitor, Barry Warburton, that he was imposing the maximum fine and a six-month ban.
He said: "That is the maximum, but it is plainly derisory when compared with his earnings."
Ferdinand, of Linton Common, West Yorkshire, who already had nine points for previous speeding convictions, was also given six more points for the latest driving offence.
The magistrate quite rightly pointed out that the monetary fine is an irrelevance to the driver in question. I am a little perterbed as to how the prosecutions costs ran to £3k though.
6 pts for 92 on a motorway is well over the top as well. Should be 3 points.
DAZ
(Rio, if you're a lurking PHer do the decent thing mate. Pay the fine and costs then bugger off abroad and don't pay millions in income tax on your club salary to this corrupt government.)
>> Edited by dazren on Monday 31st March 16:08
6 pts for 92 on a motorway is well over the top as well. Should be 3 points.
DAZ
(Rio, if you're a lurking PHer do the decent thing mate. Pay the fine and costs then bugger off abroad and don't pay millions in income tax on your club salary to this corrupt government.)
>> Edited by dazren on Monday 31st March 16:08
Daz - I suspect that the only reason he had to go to court was because a 3pt FPN would have seen him banned by totting up, and hence he had to go to court as a ban was inevitable.. it was only because he went to court that the magistrate was able to "make an example of him".
Had he not had the 9 points already, I rather suspect he'd have got the same 3pt/£60 as anyone else.
Had he not had the 9 points already, I rather suspect he'd have got the same 3pt/£60 as anyone else.
Serves him right for driving such a w@nky looking motor
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jeremyc said:It was six points, which added to his existing nine busted him.
smifffy said: ... but 6 months for 92 mph is well over the top (imho)
Still, 6 points for 92mph is over the top, but deserved if you're going to ponce about in a Cadillac Esplanade or whatever it is.
Yeah, fair point.
Multimillionaire and driving one of those. Throw the freaking book at 'im.
CarZee said: Daz - I suspect that the only reason he had to go to court was because a 3pt FPN would have seen him banned by totting up, and hence he had to go to court as a ban was inevitable.. it was only because he went to court that the magistrate was able to "make an example of him".
Had he not had the 9 points already, I rather suspect he'd have got the same 3pt/£60 as anyone else.
Carzee I agree with you that the reason for RF's case going to court is the 3 points for the offence would take him to 12 and an automatic ban. Fair enough. I just do not feel the magistrate should be dishing out 6 points in some sort of power crazed "I'm gonna make an example out of this famous motorist".
Alternatively the fact RF did not attend court himself may have miffed the magistrates big time, giving them the impression he was not taking the severity of the "toting up ban" seriously enough.
Still I look forward to seeing Rio being driven about by some long legged chauffeuse in a sparkling Bentley Convertible with a glass of champers/can of Kronenbourg (delete no-applicable) on the go.
Yep, he'll be suffering.
cheers
DAZ
(92mph, Hmmmmm I wonder what that sort of speed feels like? I reckon I'd be terrified)
hmm... perhaps, but the magistrates are in a damned if they do and damned if they don't..
dazren said: Carzee I agree with you that the reason for RF's case going to court is the 3 points for the offence would take him to 12 and an automatic ban. Fair enough. I just do not feel the magistrate should be dishing out 6 points in some sort of power crazed "I'm gonna make an example out of this famous motorist".
If they give him 3pts and £60 then a bunch of 'civvies' moan about special treatment for celebs..
if they give him more, they're being unfair in making an example of him..
IMO the magistrate acted in accordance with the fact that Mr Ferdinand's record shows he clearly has no regard whatsoever for motoring law (neither do we but we're evidently better at not getting caught - but tthen we don't drive Wurlitzer Jukeboxes to work
). FWIW I once got a FPN for 56 in a 40 from Vascar. My license was at DVLA for re-addressing and hence I couldn't produce. DVLA wouldn't give me a cover note... whatever procedure was in place for establishing my entitlement to drive in legitimate absence of paperwork clearly failed as plod in Leeds said nah bollocks you have to go to court.
They then sent the summons to the old address on my license (fcuk knows how they managed that.. ) which I didn't get until after the court date. I later found that I'd been given 5pts and £175 fine, £25 costs in my absence
Carzee.
Sorry to hear about your experience of "tick box justice", oops you didn't jump through the hoops properly sir have a few more points. I had a similar experience but with less disasterous results. Back in 1996 I got pulled over by a hairdrier attendant and given seven days to produce docs and hand my license in (42 in a 30 which I thought was a 40). As I was going on a hooning holiday in France three days later, I advised the haidrier attendant I'll take the court date instead of the three points as I can't hand my licence in within the prescribed seven days. I wrote a long letter doing the grovelly bit and explaing why I was having to waste the courts time due to being unable to hand my licence in. They gave me 3 points and a £48 fine. To think I was miffed at having to pay the extra 8 quid. Thank god my case wasn't heard by the zealots dealing with yours.
DAZ
Sorry to hear about your experience of "tick box justice", oops you didn't jump through the hoops properly sir have a few more points. I had a similar experience but with less disasterous results. Back in 1996 I got pulled over by a hairdrier attendant and given seven days to produce docs and hand my license in (42 in a 30 which I thought was a 40). As I was going on a hooning holiday in France three days later, I advised the haidrier attendant I'll take the court date instead of the three points as I can't hand my licence in within the prescribed seven days. I wrote a long letter doing the grovelly bit and explaing why I was having to waste the courts time due to being unable to hand my licence in. They gave me 3 points and a £48 fine. To think I was miffed at having to pay the extra 8 quid. Thank god my case wasn't heard by the zealots dealing with yours.
DAZ
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