Ex-England defender Ashley Cole is banned from the road for six months and must pay £3,340 for three driving offences including speeding
- Cole admitted to two speeding charges and a third for failing to give information
Former England international footballer Ashley Cole has been banned from the road for six months and must pay £3,340 for three separate driving offences.
Cole, who formerly played for Arsenal and Chelsea, faced two speeding charges and a third for failing to give information.
He did not attend Liverpool Magistrates Court for his trial listed this afternoon but the court heard that he had pleaded guilty via his lawyers to the three offences.
Liverpool Magistrates Court heard that the maximum fine for each of the offences the 42-year-old admitted was £1,000 ‘and bearing in mind his means’ he had no difficulty in taking that figure as the starting point.
Vincent Yip, prosecuting, said that the three guilty pleas entered were acceptable to the Crown and formally offered no evidence on the other two offences of failing to furnish information.
Former England international footballer Ashley Cole (pictured as a pundit) has been banned from the road for six months and must pay a fine
Liverpool Magistrates’ Court (pictured) heard that Cole faced two of speeding charges and third for failing to give information
District Judge Timothy Bosworth dismissed those charges.
Mr Yip said that the first speeding offence occurred on March 11 last year at 4.13 pm on Leeds Street at the junction with Vauxhall Road in Liverpool city centre. The Mercedes was travelling at 40 mph on a road with a 30 mph limit.
The second speeding offence took place at 8.15 am on January 11 this year in a different Mercedes, a GLS model, on Garston Way at the junction with Dock Road. The road had a 30 mph limit and he was recorded as travelling at 41 mph.
Mr Yip said that the failing to provide information on January 12 this year had been triggered by a speeding car going through a speed camera on December 11 2022.
It was not known who was driving and Cole, of Guildford Road, Fetcham, Leatherheas, Surrey, who was the registered keeper, failed to respond to a notice asking for that information.
DJ Bosworth said that Cole already has three points on his licence.
He added that there was no requirement for Cole to be present ‘and no criticism attaches to him not being here today’.
As the failing to provide charge carries a mandatory six points and the speeding three points each that meant he had reached more than 12 points and was ‘known colloquially as ‘a totter’.
‘As Mr Cole’s lawyers indicate he is well aware of this and does not seek to put forward any reasons why he should not be disqualified and being disqualified in absence,’ he told the court.
He banned him for six months from today and allowing for his guilty pleas entered before his trial date he imposed £850 fines for each offence plus costs totalling £790.
Cole was Everton coach between February 2022 and January this year. He is currently assistant manager of the England Under 21 team and a TV pundit.
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