Australian cricket legend Shane Warne has been disqualified from driving after admitting a speeding charge.
The 50-year-old leg spinner appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court earlier today.
The court heard that Warne, who already had 15 penalty points on his driving licence, was behind the wheel of a Jaguar hire car when he was clocked at 47 mph in a 40 mph zone in Kensington on 23rd August 2019.
Normally a driver would be liable to a totting up disqualification when they achieved 12 or more points on their licence, but this appears not to have happened in Warne's case owing to an administrative oversight.
His 15 penalty points were accumulated as a result of five separate speeding offences committed in fairly quick succession.
"When offences are dealt with in a very short space of time, sometimes it is not picked up", said defence lawyer Barry Warburton.
"It may be there is a slightly different date of birth or address, and you can build up a huge number of points."
Deputy District Judge Adrian Turner said: "The purpose of disqualification is to punish and to protect the public and to deter.
"There are 15 points to take into account together with the three I must impose today.
"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."
In addition to his year-long disqualification Warne, of Little Venice, west London, was fined £900 and ordered to pay £775 in prosecution costs and £170 victim surcharge.
In 2013, the cricketer was fined £500 after admitting driving at more than 100 mph on a motorway in Scotland.
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