Foyle's War Star Ordered To Wear Electronic Tag For A Month For Speeding While Banned

Honeysuckle Weeks & Michael Kitchen

Foyle's War actress Honeysuckle Weeks is currently wearing an electronic ankle tag to impose a night time curfew after being caught speeding in her BMW while banned and with a small child in the passenger seat.

The 36 year-old Cardiff-born star - who played driver Samantha Stewart in the ITV drama, which starred Michael Kitchen in the title role - broke the 50mph limit on the A3 in south-west London while behind the wheel of the black 2.0 litre vehicle she should not have been driving. 

Weeks, of Harrow Road, Harrow, who appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates Court under her married name of Stormonth-Darling pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified along Robin Hood Way, Putney on August 17, last year and received an electronically-monitored four-week curfew, which prevents her leaving home between 9pm and 7am and was disqualified from driving for four months.

She admitted speeding and was fined £250, with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge. 

There was no separate penalty for the offence of her child passenger - aged between three and thirteen years-old - not wearing the regulation seat belt.

A charge of driving without insurance was withdrawn by the prosecution.

During the proceedings a warrant, with bail, was issued for her arrest after she failed to appear in court for the second time after missing her first scheduled appearance when she claimed to be caring for an ill child.

Roedean-educated Honeysuckle, whose brother Rollo and sister Perdita are also pursuing acting careers, is an Oxford University graduate who married hypnotherapist Lorne Stormonth-Darling in a Buddhist ceremony in the Himalayas in 2005.

She has one child, Wade, born in 2011.

Her acting credits include television programmes Close Relations, Ladies & Their Gentleman, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Death in Paradise and Lewis and film appearances in Lorna Doone and My Brother Tom.