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Liverpool FC defender Glen Johnson was banned from driving for six months today.

Last month the 29-year-old England star was found guilty in his absence of failing to return a form to North Wales police, which gave the identity of the driver of his Audi, which had been “clocked” by a PC with a laser device.

It had happened on the A55 dual carriageway at Colwyn Bay, where there is a 50mph limit, last February.

Yesterday Johnson, of Formby, Merseyside, did not appear at Prestatyn Magistrates Court and was banned under the “totting-up” procedure because he already had six points on his licence.

In addition he has to pay a total of £2,300 – a fine of £1,500, £650 in costs and a £150 victims’ surcharge.

He was represented by solicitor Barry Warburton, who said he had told Johnson he must not drive from 10am today.

No means form was produced but the court clerk commented that “it seems safe to assume” that as a Premier League footballer he received more than the £450-a-week threshold.

When he was found guilty in his absence on November 29 the court was told by the prosecution: “The nature of the defence is the form was sent back completed and has been misplaced.”

It had been explained by the defence solicitor then that Johnson was unable to attend in November because he was “in the custody of the club”, training for a match at Hull.