{"id":500806,"date":"2026-02-24T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:46:08","slug":"man-utd-star-banned-six-months-for-speeding-in-residential-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500806\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd star banned six months for speeding in residential area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Manchester United defender Leny Yoro has been banned from driving for six months and fined after a speeding incident in Withington in August, BBC Sport reports. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old centre-back was caught driving his Porsche Cayenne GTS at 72mph in a 30mph zone. <a cms-href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/yoro-leny\/hSGFyXra\/\" sport-id=\"1\" player-id=\"hSGFyXra\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/yoro-leny\/hSGFyXra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yoro<\/a> pleaded guilty at Crewe Magistrates\u2019 Court and was fined \u00a3666, in addition to \u00a3120 in costs and a \u00a3266 victim surcharge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He did not appear in court, but his lawyer, Lisa Nevitt, explained that Yoro had been rushing to take a friend to the railway station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yoro signed for <a cms-href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/manchester-united\/ppjDR086\/\" sport-id=\"1\" participant-id=\"ppjDR086\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/manchester-united\/ppjDR086\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> in 2024 for \u00a352 million ($68m) after the Red Devils won the race for his signature. Real Madrid had been among the club linked with the defender but he opted for Old Trafford instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United defender Leny Yoro has been banned from driving for six months and fined after a speeding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-500806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}