John Stones convicted of speeding and fined £1,052

John Stones has been convicted of speeding after a camera recorded him driving 43mph in a 30mph zone near his Cheshire home on May 8. The footballer received four penalty points and was ordered to pay a £666 fine, £120 in costs and a £266 surcharge, according to court records described in reports. The conviction was issued through the Single Justice Procedure, a process that resolves some cases without a court hearing. The penalties total £1,052. A magistrate imposed them last week, the reports said. Stones told Warrington Magistrates’ Court that he had sent in details identifying himself as the driver on May 28, but did not see later post because he was away. In a written statement, he said he travelled with England for the World Cup, went on holiday and then moved to Milan, and that his home had been empty for almost four months. He said the later correspondence was found by chance. His explanation was his account to the court and was not independently established in the reports. A Cheshire Police officer’s witness statement, described in one account, said a notice of intended prosecution was posted to Stones’s home on May 13.