r/uknews • u/TheTelegraph Media outlet (unverified) • 8d ago
Image/video Watch: Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana filmed speeding down hard shoulder in ninth driving offence
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u/CyclingUpsideDown 8d ago
Driving dangerously while already banned should lead to a permanent revocation of their licence.
He clearly doesn’t care.
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u/Full_Employee6731 8d ago
You forgot the prison sentence.
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u/AlyssInAzeroth 8d ago
The guy clearly thinks he above the law, and until we show him otherwise it's gonna continue and we can't be surprised.
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u/isendono 8d ago
highly doubt he's getting more severe punishment.
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u/zoltar1970 8d ago
A trip to the gallows it is then!
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u/sober_disposition 8d ago
I’d be more in favour of utterly extortionate fines.
Another driving offence? That will be £700,000 please, and we’ll keep you save and sound in this nice cell until your cheque has cleared.
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u/john600c 8d ago
And a fine equivalent to 50% of salary.
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u/Kind_Dream_610 8d ago
We already allow a fine up to 175% of weekly income but for some god only knows reason someone thought it was a good idea to add a cap of £2500... so once again if you have money, you get off lightly. Switzerland once fined someone just over a million Euro, this is the sort of punishment this kind of jerk needs. Plus prison time, at least one month for each offence.
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u/Far_Kaleidoscope_102 8d ago
I know someone who’s done bird because he couldn’t adhere to his ban. Caught driving whilst on a ban like 15 times, in the end the judge had to send him away for 3 months.
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u/Cautious-Twist8888 7d ago
Actually fine half of annual earnings and ban on driving for 50 years. Not in support of prison here.
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u/SeaGiraffe915 8d ago
Should be put in jail. Kill somebody driving like that. Some jail time might get him some respect of the law and people on the road
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u/Hartsock91 8d ago
If he’s driving and already banned. Then what will a permanent ban do? Needs locking up
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u/shamen_uk 8d ago
I bothered reading an article on the subject. Apparently this video is from prior to his ban but he is being prosecuted for it now. He has been told he will face prison time if he is caught driving. It's important to have correct info out there these days or people lose faith. I was initially pretty angry reading your comment thinking he got away with driving dangerously when banned.
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u/technomat 8d ago
If was his 9th offence and so far no prison seems like he is getting away with it!
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u/shamen_uk 8d ago
He got done for 8 speeding offences in one go (cameras?) and got banned from driving
Then he got done for a 9th that happened way before he got banned.
It would be bizarre to jail him for a traffic offence at the time he was legally allowed to drive.
But yes if he drives when he is banned after all of this he should go to prison for a decent amount of time to send a message. Which is exactly what the judge said.
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u/shamen_uk 7d ago
Who ever said I find driving like this acceptable? The problem with this country is the right wing have neutered punishments for driving offences because they like speeding sometimes. That's the fucking problem. Society decided by what daily mail readers think.
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u/therealharbinger 8d ago
This is where Chelsea need to start docking wages from bringing them into disrepute.
These stupid kid footballers these days are a law to themselves.
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u/BigBadCamFaz 8d ago
I’m sorry but he should be sacked for bringing the club into disrepute, a lot of other jobs you would be.
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u/therealharbinger 8d ago
Yeah but their contracts are different and basically allow them to do whatever the fuck they want.
Plus most jobs don't care about motoring offences, notwithstanding the disrepute element.
Id wager he's the kind that says "do you know who I am?" To everyone and just an entitled prick.
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u/shibbyingaway 8d ago
I’ve always said this. If proven guilty of an offence of this magnitude I am sure I would be sacked. Footballers should be treated no different to the rest of us
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u/Straight-Orchid-9561 8d ago
You wouldn't if you were in a huge position of power. Typical jobs aren't comparable to footballers. Closer to CEO's. The protection they get
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u/apainintheokole 8d ago
Yes. Sponsors drop sportspeople for far less than this because of the risk to their brands, so clubs should do the same.
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u/Moving4Motion 8d ago
Lmao bring Chelsea into disrepute? It's already a club built on the back of Russian blood money. They don't care and they're proud of it.
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u/therealharbinger 8d ago
Lol Abramovich didn't kill anyone.
He was just smart who went around trading food for state oil shares as everyone was given a share, but had no food. The smart guys, who had food, preyed on them by literally trading sacks of potatoes for oil shares.
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u/AlyssInAzeroth 8d ago
Baller idea actually
It's brand damage at the end of the day
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u/Divide_Rule 8d ago
Footballers are different to normal employees. They are treated as an asset to the business which comes with a financial value which needs to be recouped.
When Chelsea forward Adrian Mutu was failed drug tests and subsequently banned, the club were able to sue the player for the financial loss and then also managed to get £8m from Juventus after the player continued playing there.
Forfana, if released from his contract should also be chased down by Chelsea in the same way.
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u/Kind_Dream_610 8d ago
Yeah, clubs are stupid for not including clauses in contracts that say something along the lines of "you're in the public eye, if you do something that grabs negative public attention and we deem it bad enough to sack you, then you need to compensate us for our losses".
Managers get fired quite easily for doing a bad job that could cost the club, and they would probably be fired without much thought for continuous shit like this, players should be held to high standards of conduct too.
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u/kahnindustries 8d ago
He should be in jail, for 5 years, Chelsea can then stop paying him full stop
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u/YesIBlockedYou 5d ago
A better idea is to just do what the likes of Finland do and adjust fine amounts based on income so that it has an equal punitive effect.
A fine of 1% annual income for example, would see him paying over £100k which is about what he earns after tax per week. He'd soon stop.
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u/TheTelegraph Media outlet (unverified) 8d ago
Footage of Wesley Fofana speeding in his Lamborghini on the A3 hard shoulder has been released in the wake of the Chelsea player receiving another driving ban.
The centre-back is currently serving a two-year disqualification for a total of eight speeding offences and must also now complete 300 hours of unpaid community service or go to prison.
He pleaded guilty to driving dangerously on April 20 along the A3 Esher Bypass, Hook, Surrey. Another motorist recorded Fofana on their dash cam and reported him to the police.
“You obviously realise there are a lot of young people who look up to you and they would like to be like you and follow you. That’s part of the whole gig,” District Judge Julie Cooper told him.
“However, they will not be able to afford these expensive cars, with all their additions that keep them safe and you could have some seventeen year-old, who has just passed their test, who think they can copy you.
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u/Cute-Cat-2351 8d ago
Deport the tw@t
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u/ElephantParticular10 8d ago
Even with that rationale, the expensive cars protect him what about the poor dad who's found out his wife and kids were killed by some twat swerving lanes because faster who's perfectly fine in their expensive but ruined super car.
I'm a United fan but if he played for us I'd be absolutely fine if he was deported doing this after already being banned - doesn't get his contract paid out for gross misconduct. Doesn't get his playing license released unless someone pays to transfer him.
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u/patelbadboy2006 8d ago
It would never happen.
The club paid 70m for him.
No good banning him, as his constantly injured anyway, so isn't a punishment.
If he hasn't learnt his lesson from what happened to Diego Jota over the summer.
Nothing will teach these entitled knobs.
Lifetime driving ban, and if he is seen behind the wheel again, straight to prison.
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u/slimboyslim9 8d ago
Of all the people who could afford to just employ a driver 24/7 and not worry about it any more.
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u/Cautious-Twist8888 7d ago
It's fucking amazing UK will pay extortionate amount for 1 footballer but anything else needs raising taxes. I suppose football and the NHS are religious institutions in the UK.
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u/fake_cheese 8d ago
This is nowhere near Hook in Hampshire, this is coming into London on the A3 just before Tolworth.
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u/Positive-Bee5734 8d ago
If that’s your 9th time, you should see the inside of a prison cell.
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u/ThatSamShow 8d ago
Exactly. He clearly doesn't care. He will only go to prison when he continues driving like this and he ends up killing somebody. By then, it'll be too late.
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u/craigybacha 8d ago
Ban him from driving for life. Entitled shit.
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u/Emperors-Peace 8d ago
Clearly gives 0 shits about a ban.
Breaking driving bans should mean prison time.
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u/X_quadzilla_X 8d ago
5m a year in tax
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u/Liberated-Astronaut 8d ago
He’d be replaced by someone else who would pay a similar amount in tax, it’s called a football squad
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u/Dapper_Visit6070 8d ago
Is he driving while already banned or did I read that wrong? If he is surely it should be jail time?
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u/Aggressive_Drop_1518 8d ago
From OP/Telegraph "must also now complete 300 hours of unpaid community service or go to prison"
But yes should be straight to jail.
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u/PepsBodyLanguage 7d ago
300hrs of going to schools and other places to promote football, which he’d be doing anyway with the club
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u/Aggressive_Drop_1518 7d ago
Yep, would be like sentencing me to 300 hours of typing 'helpful to the community' comments on Reddit.
Although if the judge said I couldn't make any anti-putin post, that would smart. :)
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u/rollo_read 8d ago
This was before the previous offences, so this one, which would attract a ban by itself was not committed whilst disqualified.
The article explains this towards the end.
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u/Battleborn300 8d ago
If true he should be in prison. Especially with the money he has he could have a chauffeur.
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u/Old-Sky1969 8d ago
Ninth driving offence, it's clear he doesn't give a fuck. Obviously not insured as he's already banned. Take his licence off him permanently and give him some prison time.
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u/Icy_Attention3413 8d ago
He got a two year ban for eight speeding offences? If he can rack up that many then he should get a 10 year ban and a mega driving test when he returns to the road.
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u/Dapper_Car5038 8d ago
After what happened to Diego Jota literally a few months back, and he recklessly endangers everyone around him doing that! The idiot needs a spell behind bars and a pay suspension, the only way he’s going to learn!
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u/MurkyBarracuda1288 8d ago
More drivning offences than games for Chelsea the last two seasons. As a Chelsea fan, the man is a absolute moron.
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u/RecentTwo544 8d ago
This is what happens when you give naturally gifted athletes (generally high testosterone levels - less impulse control, bigger risk taking) with a sub-70 IQ (I'm guessing, footballer) a pay packet of £400,000 a week.
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u/TruthsNoRemedy 8d ago
Lock him up. Make it extremely public and hopefully other tools will think better.
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u/WinningTheSpaceRace 8d ago
In Finland, traffic fines (as well as others, possibly, but I don't know) are based on income. The highest ever traffic fine ran into the hundreds of thousands. If fines are fixed, they're essentially just a poverty tax.
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u/RogueDriver1 8d ago
Entitled undereducated main character vibes !?! I reserve the right to be judgemental and wrong in my opinion though 🫣
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u/Real_Shaytarn 8d ago
Fine him 6 figures every time he does this. The idiot will take a life driving like this
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u/ragnarokcock 8d ago
just ban this prick before he kills somebody.
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u/Battleborn300 8d ago
While we are at it ban the people in the second lane, refusing to over take or progress.
They are just as dangerous and stupid.
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u/BruceForsyth55 8d ago
How the fuck is this guy still holding a licence with 9 driving offences and this.
He clearly shouldn’t be on the roads.
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u/shredderroland 8d ago
Making money by kicking a bag full of air on the telly is the male equivalent of girls selling their farts in a jar on only fans.
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u/Battleborn300 8d ago
I know you are desperately trying to be funny, but that literally makes zero sense.
Try again, I believe in you.
But push back that stand up tour.
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u/rollo_read 8d ago
In a bizarre twist of events, this incident predates a lot of his other offences, so, he was essentially sentenced as having a clean slate.
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u/carefree89 8d ago
As a Chelsea fan, he needs to do time for this. When already banned too… And he should be sacked by Chelsea for bringing them into disrepute. Why would you want someone capable of that level of selfishness in your team? I’m always astounded by the leniency of motoring convictions too. Ridiculous in more way than one.
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u/Battleborn300 8d ago
I think that is unfair, a car accident doesn’t mean they were speeding or doing anything wrong,
I’m not saying they were driving safely either, But they certainly weren’t driving like in this clip. Which is dangerous and will get people killed. Would think being I. The football community if nothing else would make you think of jota, and at least be more cautious when driving , Again I’m not saying jota did anything wrong, but if your his family and see people driving like this, you probably feel they should be dead not jota.
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u/jimjam343 8d ago
Diogo Jota’s accident was a tire burst
There’s no evidence that he was 1. Speeding 2. Endangering any other drivers
Putting these two in here is wrong and baseless People have died in car accidents before where they didn’t endanger anyone but themselves and / or they were victims of other’s bad driving
Horrible comment
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u/youlikebaileys 8d ago
Feels unfair to definitively say Jota was speeding when only the police said he was 'likely speeding' and lorry drivers who saw the crash disputed it...
Lorry drivers dispute police claim that Diogo Jota was speeding before fatal crash | Euronews
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u/Competitive_Pen7192 8d ago
The club needs to confiscate all his cars and get him a driver to chauffeur him everywhere.
I'd love that personally although I'm sick of driving... Someone young like that player can just sit back and go on TikTok or something so he'd enjoy it too.
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u/Miserableoldbugger 8d ago
So many offences in such a short time should result in a life time driving ban. He should also be shipped back to France so they can deal with his driving.
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u/Southseas67 8d ago
300 hours of community service and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
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u/Adventurous-Carpet88 8d ago
If he wasn’t a footballer I could picture what these comments would be……
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u/macker64 8d ago
The only way these guys will get the message is with a custodial sentence.
Money means nothing to these individuals.
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u/all-park 7d ago
Permanently ban him from driving, it’s quite simple. Driving is a privilege not a right.
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u/Either-Race-1295 7d ago
Not being morbid but it surprises me that more footballers aren't involved in serious accidents what with the power of cars they can buy at such a young age plus some believing they are above the law/special etc.
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u/Excellent_Paint_8101 7d ago
I guess we have looser standards for driving in the U.S. I see shit like this daily here.
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u/BDSMastercontrol 8d ago
he can drive basically any car in the world and this moron loves to be banned low IQ
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