Australian spin legend Shane Warne has been banned from driving for next 12 months after he admitted to a speeding charge.
The 50-year-old, who was not in the Wimbledon Magistrates' Court for the hearing, admitted to driving at 47mph in a 40mph zone in a hired Jaguar car in Kensington last August. He already had 15 penalty points on his licence for five speeding charges from April 2016.
He was also ordered to pay £1,845 (around Rs 1.6 lakh) to the court.
"The purpose of disqualification is to punish and to protect the public and to deter,” Deputy District Judge Adrian Turner was quoted as saying.
"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,” Turner said.
The Aussie leg-spinner has 708 wickets in 145 Tests—second only to Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.
