SIX POINTS BY NICO
Top Scots chef has licence endorsed after he’s caught speeding in luxury Bentley
A SCOTS chef has been een served with six penalty points nts and a fine after his Bentley ley was caught speeding andd a conviction appeal was then en rejected.
A camera clocked Nicoco Simeone’s luxury car beingng driven northbound on the M6 in Cumbria at 59mph throughgh road improvementnt works withh a 50mph limit onn February 7..
A notice of intended prosecution (NIP) and requestt to identify the driverr was mailed to him as the registeredegistered keeper. By law he had 28 days to respond but never did so.
When the case was dealt with at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court in his absence in August, the 31-year-old was fined £660 and handed six penalty points.
But after later receiving an endorsement notice, Simeone lodged an appeal against his conviction and sentence for failing to identify the driver.
In an appeal document, Simeone – who runs Six by Nico in Glasgow’s Finnieston and also has restaurants in London, Manchester and Liverpool – stated he had moved house in March “just after lockdown”. He believed the NIP had been sent to his Glasgow home address and that his wife had forwarded
it to his businebusiness office, unaware that it was closed.clo However, Jamie Baxter, responding for the prosecution at a Carlisle Crown Court appeal hearing, said Simeone’s contention was now that the NIP had “never actually arrived at his house whatsoever”.
Baxter, after questioning Simeone, said: “I have to suggest for whatever reason – negligence, mistake or otherwise – you just didn’t reply to this notice and it was received.”
“No,” replied Simeone, who confirmed his office had been checked and the NIP wasn’t there.
After hearing evidence and submissions, recorder Lawrence McDonald, sitting with two magistrates, rejected Simeone’s defence and dismissed the appeal.
The appeal panel ordered the chef to pay £415 costs and left the original fine in place.
I have to suggest you just did not reply to the notice PROSECUTOR JAMIE BAXTER TO SIMEONE