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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mathilde Grandjean

Champion jockey fined £70,000 for drink driving after crashing car into tree

Jockey Oisin Murphy arrives at Reading Magistrates' Court - (Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been handed a substantial fine and a lengthy driving ban after admitting to drunk driving and crashing his car into a tree earlier this year.

The 29-year-old, of Beales Farm Road, Lambourn, Hungerford, was fined £70,000 and disqualified from driving for 20 months at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

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