Yorke scores legal victory as speeding fine is overturned

BRITISH soccer star Dwight Yorke yesterday scored a legal victory when the High Court overturned a speeding fine.

A judge ruled the Blackburn Rovers striker's conviction must be quashed because there was evidence he did not "personally" fill in an official form relied on by the police to show he was the driver of a vehicle caught speeding.

Mr Justice Owen, sitting in London, said magistrates had established a prime facie case against Yorke on an "erroneous basis".