British man spends £30,000 fighiting £100 speeding fine

A British man has claimed he spent £30,000 of life savings, including his sons’ inheritance, fighting a £100 speeding fine, according to a report of by the BBC.

Richard Keedwell, 71, says he was wrongly slapped with a fine for travelling at 35mph in a 30mph zone during a day out in Worcester, England in 2016.

But rather than pay the fine, the retired engineer decided to challenge the fine in a court case that lasted over 3 years and two appeals, all of which he lost.

At a point he even engaged the services of an expert who told a court the speed camera may have been faulty or set off by a car in another lane, the BBC reports.

Speaking to the BBC, he said he thought the case would be “fairly quick” but spent “the best part of £30,000” on barristers’ fees, court costs and travel to the court on four separate occasions.

Keedwell also admitted he regretted having spent the money fighting the speed ticket but all he “very simply wanted justice”.

“I really could not believe that I had been speeding,” he tells the BBC. “It made a simple day out turn very sour actually.

“I’m sick and tired at the whole system which is steamrolling ordinary people.”

A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) tells the BBC: “As the case involved both a lengthy trial at the magistrates’ court and subsequent hearings at the crown court to progress an appeal against conviction, the overall length of the case took some time to conclude.”