'Loophole' lawyer fails to save TV star

TV PRESENTER Chris Tarrant was given six points on his licence and fined £525 yesterday after he was caught speeding twice in 21 minutes on the same stretch of road.

Celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman, dubbed Mr Loophole, pleaded guilty on behalf of his client after losing an argument for abuse of process.

District Judge Peter Crabtree, sitting at Reading Magistrates' Court, gave Tarrant, who was not in court, three points for each offence and ordered him to pay a fine of 525 plus 1,630 in costs.

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The presenter was filmed twice by the same camera exceeding the 30mph limit in Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire, on the morning of May 20 last year.

He was caught at 10.30am driving his silver Mercedes Benz CL500 at 47mph, cutting a corner.

He was then caught by the same marked van 21 minutes later returning at 41mph.

Mr Freeman had argued that two summonses went missing, meaning Tarrant received the third summons 11 weeks after the six-month time limit set out in Section 127 of the Magistrates Act 1980.