A 1Felixstowe cargo handling boss has today successfully appealed to have his driving disqualification overturned.

Samuel Heyes, of Rendlesham Road, was clocked driving an Audi A4 at 110mph on the westbound A14, at Sproughton, just before 11.30am on April 30 last year.

The 30-year-old from Felixstowe, already had nine points on his licence at the time of the offence Ipswich magistrates rejected an 'exceptional hardship' application last September.

They handed him another six points and banned him from driving for six months under the totting-up procedure but following the appeal to a judge and two magistrates, Heyes has been permitted to keep driving with 15 points on his licence.

The court heard that Heyes who is the sole director of a coffee cargo handling business, operating at Tilbury and Liverpool ports, employs two people and currently appoints 16 subcontractors. As such he is classed as a keyworker.

Heyes told how he took a call from his former business partner regarding procedures and policies that needed to be put in place due to Covid-19, and that he was "faced with an open road" when making the journey to begin working on the document.

Today, Heyes was granted a suspension of disqualification pending an appeal before a judge and two magistrates at Ipswich Crown Court.