UPTO SIX MONTHS

Last updated : 11 March 2003 By editor

The United defender has been ordered to appear in person at Leeds magistrates court to be disqualified later this month.He was found guilty in his absence of doing 92mph on the M1 near Leeds last March.

During a three hour trial Ferdinand's solicitor Barry Warburton suggested police had misused speed detection equipment and had failed to calibrate it properly. But the arguments were rejected by District Judge Roy Anderson who said there was nothing to show that this was the case.

Ferdinand, who broke all UK transfer records when he switched from Leeds to Manchester United for £30m last summer, already had nine points on his licence at the time of the offence.

This means he will be subject to an automatic ban as part of the "totting up" procedure.

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