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Tristan Kirk

Ex-Chelsea star N’Golo Kante facing fast-track justice over London driving offence ‘when abroad’

Former Chelsea star N’Golo Kante is being prosecuted using the controversial fast-track justice system over a driving offence, despite telling police he was out of the country at the time.

The World Cup-winning French midfielder has been charged with a criminal offence after a member of the public spotted someone using a phone while driving his Mercedes. Kante, 33, insisted in an email to the Metropolitan Police that he was not in the UK on the day of the offence last October.

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