Peter Shilton admits drink-driving charge (From Essex County Standard)
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Peter Shilton admits drink-driving charge
10:52am Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News By Will Lodge
Peter Shilton admits drink-driving charge
ENGLAND'S most-capped footballer has admitted drink-driving.
Peter Shilton, 63, was moving his Jaguar XF closer to an address in Manor Road, Colchester, on February 24.
Joe Stickings, prosecuting, told Colchester Magistrates' Court the shot-stopper pulled up behind a police car and was breathlysed, later recording 85microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath at the police station.
Shilton, who gave his address as Kenilworth, Warwickshire, admitted the offence at court this morning.
Paul Tawn, mitigating, said he was a man of previously good character.
Dr Ilona Perkins-Van-Mil, chairman of the magistrates, fined Shilton £850 and ordered him to pay £170 costs. He was also banned from driving for 20 months.
Comments(11)
TheCaptain
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11:58am Tue 19 Mar 13
Ritchie_Hicks
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12:45pm Tue 19 Mar 13
davey4
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1:12pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Ritchie_Hicks wrote:Not really considering that the legal limit is 80. No excuses whatsoever but according to the report he was only slightly over.
85 in 100. That's pretty well drunk.
furniture-zone@hotmail.co.uk
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2:02pm Tue 19 Mar 13
TheCaptain
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3:34pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Heinz
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7:57pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Boris
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11:03pm Tue 19 Mar 13
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The story suggests that Peter Shilton was just moving his car from one spot in the street to another. Obviously he should not have done that while in an inebriated state, but was he endangering anyone's life?
romantic
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9:45am Wed 20 Mar 13
It was just a trip around the corner, and in all likelihood, nothing would happen, but you never know if somebody will step into the road. The unexpected doesn´t just happen on long trips.
But he owned up to it, he´s been punished, he said the trial was fair, and hopefully he will think twice before shifting the car next time.
jeffbridges
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9:52am Wed 20 Mar 13
"" Obviously he should not have done that while in an inebriated state""
correct me If I am wrong here,
but by creating a precedent, you therefore turn it Into a further legal loophole later, for the likes of Mr Loophole to earn much more money in his "trade"
If, as we read It has been done so, the justice sytem, as flawed at times as it Is, has to be seen to be working for the people, not for those who just may believe, are above the people.
I too am saddened to read of a footballing hero who has fallen foul of the law, even more so at his age.
we read almost daily, of those in current employment as footballers who behave as If they live and breath above the laws of this land.
Boris
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2:18am Thu 21 Mar 13
jeffbridges wrote:I wasn't asking for a precedent to be set (for what?). All I was saying was that he owned up to it, and didn't try to cheat the law like Jimmy Carr did. He paid a heavy fine, and he'll have to have someone else drive him around for the next 20 months. Quite a penalty if all he was doing was moving his car along the street. But as romantic says, many of us are from a generation which takes drink-driving too lightly. I don't condone it, but I think I understand it.
Boris,
"" Obviously he should not have done that while in an inebriated state""
correct me If I am wrong here,
but by creating a precedent, you therefore turn it Into a further legal loophole later, for the likes of Mr Loophole to earn much more money in his "trade"
If, as we read It has been done so, the justice sytem, as flawed at times as it Is, has to be seen to be working for the people, not for those who just may believe, are above the people.
I too am saddened to read of a footballing hero who has fallen foul of the law, even more so at his age.
we read almost daily, of those in current employment as footballers who behave as If they live and breath above the laws of this land.
Feisty CBC says...
11:27am Tue 19 Mar 13