Former footballer and current Sky soccer pundit Jamie Redknapp was banned from driving for twelve months today for clocking-up multiple speeding offences.
It was the 51 year-old ex-Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool FC star’s second driving ban for speeding, meaning he was disqualified for twice the usual length of time.
The former England international, who lives in a six-bedroom £10.5m house in Kensington, did not appear at Bexley Magistrates Court.
He pleaded guilty in advance of the hearing and declared his income to the court as £9,230 per week.
Redknapp pleaded guilty to exceeding the 20mph limit on June 26, last year on the A219 Putney Hill, near the junction of Westleigh Avenue, Putney, where a camera snapped him doing 26mph.
He also admitted exceeding the 50mph limit on November 2, last year on the M4 near Burghfield, Reading, where he was caught driving at 58mph.
On both occasions Redknapp was driving a brand new black electric Audi Q8.
Former footballer and current Sky soccer pundit Jamie Redknapp was banned from driving for twelve months today for clocking-up multiple speeding offences
Jamie Redknapp’s Audi Q8 pictured by speeding cameras. The image was used by the Met Police to prosecute the former footballer
The former England international, who lives in a six-bedroom £10.5m house in Kensington did not appear at Bexley Magistrates Court (pictured)
The ten-minute hearing was told Redknapp currently has twelve penalty points on his licence and today’s penalty points were his second ‘totting’ offence.
The rest of his penalty points come from three other speeding offences.
He received three points for an offence on May 2, 2023, another six points for speeding on March 5, 2024, and a further three points for speeding on March 15, 2024.
He was informed he was liable to disqualification via post prior to the hearing.
Today, he was fined total of £292; plus £200 costs and was ordered to pay a £116 victim surcharge.
‘As a totter for the second time the defendant is disqualified from driving for twelve months from now and the total fines and costs has to be paid within twenty-eight days and we make a collection order,’ announced bench chairwoman Daniele Spens.
A previous order in 2015 saw him banned from the roads for six months after he was sentenced for a series of driving offences culminating in a him speeding in a Bentley on the M25.
His ex-wife Louise was previously banned from the roads for six months after she was pulled over by cops for using her phone at the wheel on her way back home from the school run
It comes after his ex-wife, singer and TV star Louise, was banned from the roads for six months in December.
She was pulled over by cops for using her phone at the wheel on her way back home from the school run.
The court heard the 50-year-old had been trying to find an alternative route on a Sat Nav app to dodge traffic when she was caught.
She pleaded guilty to using a handheld mobile phone while driving, and was sentenced at Crawley magistrates court to a six-month driving ban.
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