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British man ‘spent children’s inheritance’ fighting US$123 speeding ticket
- Richard Keedwell, 71, claims to have spent ‘the best part of £30,000’ in his failed three-year legal battle to get out of paying a £100 fine
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A British man said he spent tens of thousands of pounds in savings earmarked for his children’s inheritance unsuccessfully fighting a speeding fine for £100 (US$123), the BBC reported on Tuesday.
Richard Keedwell, 71, from Gloucestershire in western England, was clocked driving 56km per hour on a 48kp/h stretch of road in 2016.
He challenged the resulting fine, claiming he “could not believe” he had been speeding and that he had “no case to answer”.
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But his ultimately futile fight has taken three years to wind its way through the courts – and cost Keedwell “the best part of £30,000” (US$37,000) that he had eventually intended to pass on to his sons.
“I regret the amount of money,” the legal crusader was quoted as saying. He said he felt guilty that his family would miss out on the funds and that the case had proved “very stressful”.
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“I very simply wanted justice,” he said.
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