The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was on Wednesday convicted of speeding.
According to Sky News, the court ordered him to pay £510 in total for exceeding a 20-mile-per-hour limit near Lambeth Palace on October 2 last year.
The 67-year-old was also handed three penalty points after being caught by a speed camera in his Volkswagen Golf on the A3036 Albert Embankment.
He was convicted in a private hearing at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court the same day he criticised the government’s plans to combat the issue of migrants crossing the Channel on small boats as “morally unacceptable and politically impractical”.
The conviction, first reported by the Evening Standard, came just days after Welby led the King’s coronation ceremony.
Welby admitted the offence online – he was handed a £300 fine and ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge and £90 in costs.
Sky News said the prosecution was conducted through the Single Justice Procedure, which allows the court to deal with the matter through written evidence in a private hearing.
