Porsche-driving ‘Top Gear’ producer Andy Wilman has clocked up yet another speeding offence after being caught on camera travelling at 30mph in a 20mph zone.
Andy Wilman with classic Top Gear line-up
The 63 year-old did not appear at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court, where he received three penalty points and was fined £666, with £130 costs and ordered to pay a £266 victim surcharge.
He was executive producer of the BBC show between 2002 and 2015 before leaving with old school pal Jeremy Clarkson to create spin-off ‘The Grand Tour’, broadcast on Amazon Prime.
Wilman, who lives in a £6m house in Lyford Road, Wandsworth Common pleaded guilty to driving his grey 2.9 litre Porsche Macan in excess of the 20mph limit on the A41 Finchley Road, Hampstead, near the junction with Parsifal Road on April 21.
At the same court in May he received a six-month disqualification for his fourth speeding conviction in three years, meaning the latest three points were imposed a few days after getting his licence back.
Prosecutor Kari Williams told the court: “It was 4.46pm and a speed camera recorded the driver at 30mph in a twenty.
“Mr Wilman was disqualified in May, this year as a totter and the licence does not currently have any live points.”
Bench Chairwoman Wendy Preston announced: “He was disqualified in May and this offence pre-dates it.
“In the case of Mr Wilman his licence will be endorsed with three penalty points and will be fined.
“We are taking into account his guilty plea. It would have been a thousands pounds, but we are taking into account the plea.”
Wilman’s solicitors wrote to the court, indicating he would be admitting the offence.
Wilman became the unofficial ‘fourth member’ of the classic Top Gear line-up of Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond is now working on Clarkson’s Farm in the Cotswolds.
He was educated at £52,000-a year Repton School, Derbyshire - also attended by Clarkson - and has also produced ‘Clarkson’s Farm’.
Working extensively with his school chum Wilman has also produced ‘Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld’; ‘Jeremy Clarkson’s Extreme Machines’; ‘Jeremy Clarkson: Meet the Neighbours’ and ‘Jeremy Clarkson: The Greatest Raid of All Time’.
BAFTA-nominated Wilman, an £800,000 a year broadcasting executive was given twenty-eight days to pay.
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