IT Is

perfectly legitimate for rich celebrities to employ the best lawyers they can afford. David Beckham isn’t the only millionaire who has recruited solicitor Nick Freeman, known as Mr Loophole. Yesterday, he got Beckham off a speeding allegation on a technicality, arguing that the notice arrived one day too late. The case was dismissed. All perfectly legal and legitimate. Yet at a time of stretched resources within the constabulary, all this expensive manoeuvring by someone who is desperate to be a knight of the realm, but who also gives the impression the rules of the realm should not apply to him, leaves me feeling rather queasy.