Former boxing world champion Dereck Chisora has avoided a driving ban after appealing a sentence for lacking insurance.
Chisora was stopped by police in his Bentley in London in November 2015 for driving without insurance or an MOT certificate.
Magistrates gave Chisora six points on his licence, which would have led to a six-month ban which had been suspended as he appealed the sentence.
According to a report by the
Mirror, Chisora told the court that he paid insurance for himself and his brother-in-law, who occasionally drove for the boxer. A friend and employee, Johnson Boeteng or “Jay,” arranged the cover.
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Chisora, who was educated in Zimbabwe until his teens before moving to the UK, admitted that he found reading documents “very hard”, prompting him to entrust the paperwork to someone else.
“I get Jay to deal with my admin. And he dealt with the insurance. I pay him as an employee but I don’t see it like that,” the
Mirror quoted him as saying.
“When I paid for it I paid for two drivers, the money went out and I figured I was insured. I thought I was fine,” he also said.
Appeal panel chair Marios Lambis approved Chisora’s plea and ordered that no points will be put on his licence, according to the
Daily Mail. He said there was “reasonable ground” for the boxer’s “honest belief” that he was insured.
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