https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67613292
“British sprinter Bianca Williams has been banned from driving despite telling a court it would jeopardise her chances of going to the 2024 Olympics.
Williams, 29, failed to tell police who was driving a Tesla Model 3 when an alleged offence took place.
The athlete claimed a ban would make it difficult for her to get to training.
But magistrates at Lavender Hill rejected her claim that she could not use public transport and suspended her from driving for six months.
Williams failed on three occasions to reply to letters from the police between April and June 2023.
In October, two Metropolitan Police officers were sacked over a stop and search of Williams and her partner, the Portuguese sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos, 28, in 2020.
The couple are black and claimed they were racially profiled.
A police misconduct hearing was told officers followed Mr Dos Santos in their police carrier because of the "appalling" and "suspicious" nature of his driving and were doing their duty when they conducted the stop and search.
But the panel found two officers had lied about smelling cannabis..
..Williams was disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to pay a fine of £276, a surcharge of £110 and £85 costs. Another 18 points were added to her licence, bringing her total to 29.”
Seems like there’s a strong chance the driving at the time of the incident with those officers was pretty poor. 29 points on your license is some going.
Obviously doesn’t excuse the conduct of the two that lied and the unlawful searches in the slightest but it seems the actual stop itself could have been valid.