A farmer caught driving a Land Rover Discovery at 116 miles per hour on a motorway near Kinross has been allowed to keep his licence after his solicitor insisted he needed it for his work.
Bruce Keillor was busted by police officers who were carrying out static checks on other vehicles when he sped past them on the M90 Edinburgh to Perth road near Gairneybridge at around 8.50pm.
Fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson told Perth Sheriff Court the constables were parked on a flyover when Keillor whizzed past them doing 116 mph on a 70 mph stretch.
However Keillor was allowed to keep his licence last week after his solicitor Steve Lafferty successfully argued he needed it to hold onto his job.
“He is held in high regard by his employer,” he told Perth Sheriff Court last Wednesday. “His position is if he loses his licence, he loses his employment.”
Mr Lafferty said Keillor, of West Ingliston Farm, Forfar, usually covered a distance of around 10,000 miles a year driving for his work.
He pointed out the 24-year-old was a first offender and had only been clocked travelling at 116 mph for a distance of 317 metres.
“It is a very small fraction of his total,” he said.
Mr Lafferty also argued there was “limited traffic” on the motorway when Keillor was caught going over the speed limit on June 4 last year.
Sheriff Craig McSherry opted to put six penalty points on Keillor’s licence and fine him £750.
