Footballer John Stones has been convicted of speeding after he missed a police letter while at the World Cup with England.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old defender, who left Manchester City for Inter Milan in the summer, was caught driving his \u00a3150,000 Range Rover at 43mph (69 km\/h) along a 30 mph (48 km\/h) stretch of a country lane near his Cheshire home in May.<\/p>\n
Stones admitted being the driver when first contacted by Cheshire Police, but did not respond to a second letter offering him the chance to pay a fixed penalty to keep the speeding offence out of court.<\/p>\n
He wrote to Warrington Magistrates Court to explain he had been abroad but was landed with a \u00a31,052 court bill. He was given four points.<\/p>\n
Stones was prosecuted after he did not reply to the police letter.<\/p>\n
The Three Lions star was convicted in the Single Justice Procedure, with a magistrate last week issuing him four penalty points and ordering him to pay a \u00a3666 fine, \u00a3120 in costs, and a \u00a3266 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n
Explaining the mishap, Stones wrote to Warrington Magistrates Court and said: “Nothing to say about the speeding.<\/p>\n
“The reason I am only responding to the offence now is because I represent our country for football and so I have not been home and seen any post.<\/p>\n
“I sent off my letter on the 28th May to give my details, I went off to join England.<\/p>\n
“We were there until the 19th July.<\/p>\n
“I went on holiday and then moved to Milan, so this has been found by chance, as no- one has been home for almost four months.<\/p>\n
“This is the reason I also would not be able to be present as I no longer am residing in the country.”<\/p>\n
Court records showed Stones was at the wheel of the Range Rover when it was clocked by a speed camera.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at 10:40 BST on 8 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footballer John Stones has been convicted of speeding after he missed a police letter while at the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}