Millionaire host Tarrant fined £525 for speeding

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

Lawyer Nick Freeman, dubbed Mr Loophole, pleaded guilty on behalf of Tarrant, host of TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 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.

He was filmed twice by the same camera exceeding the 30mph limit in Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire, on 20 May last year. He was caught at 10.30am driving his silver Mercedes Benz CL500 at 47mph. He was then caught by the same marked van 21 minutes later at 41mph.