RANGERS prima Rabbi Matondo deed speeds of implicit 100mph arsenic cops chased him to Ibrox — aft helium had tailgated their unmarked motor.
The Welsh winger, 24, besides weaved successful and retired of postulation connected Glasgow’s M8 and ran a reddish airy arsenic helium rushed to training.
Rabbi Matondo was slapped with a driving ban
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He was clocked connected the M8He was deed with a year’s roadworthy prohibition and fined aft being convicted of unsafe driving.
But cops didn’t effort to support up with Rangers ace Rabbi Matondo’s car during a 100mph dash to Ibrox — successful lawsuit helium mislaid power and killed someone, a tribunal heard.
A postulation constable told however helium feared “a fatality” if helium tried to lucifer the precocious speeds deed by the winger, 24, arsenic helium raced to a nationalist grooming session.
Officers yet caught up with the footie ace astatine the Rangers stadium, wherever they marched successful done the players’ entranceway to complaint him with unsafe driving.
And the Welsh planetary was deed with a 12-month driving prohibition aft being convicted of the offence astatine Glasgow Sheriff Court.
PC James Bowie told however helium was with a workfellow successful an unmarked constabulary centrifugal connected the M8 erstwhile they were tailgated by Matondo’s Audi Q8 connected the city’s Kingston Bridge.
Dashcam footage showed the almighty SUV speeding off, sparking a pursuit connected August 1, 2023.
The Light Blues guardant was past seen undertaking an HGV and moving a reddish airy arsenic helium near the cops successful his wake.
PC Bowie said they “never went anyplace near” his car contempt reaching 80mph.
He explained: “I knew it was a bully large Audi Q8. But I thought that if helium loses power astatine 100 miles per hr determination is simply a anticipation of a fatality.”
When the officers yet got to interview Matondo, they said helium was “remorseful”.
Defence lawyer Ronnie Simpson said the officers’ study stated the player’s mean velocity was 72mph connected a 50mph stretch.
PC Bowie replied: “That’s an mean betwixt distances.
“In among that the velocity was successful excess of 100mph.”
He was besides asked wherefore helium charged Matondo with unsafe driving alternatively than manus him a fixed punishment notice.
PC Bowie said determination were “other elements” to his driving, and it was a “course of conduct”.
The bull added: “In my opinion, helium seemed remorseful and his cognition was beauteous good.
“He understood what we were explaining and seemed to judge wherefore we were there.”
Mr Simpson said: “He was a young antheral moving precocious to his enactment — and helium didn’t privation to fto his colleagues down.”
But Sheriff Mary Shields recovered Matondo — presently connected indebtedness astatine German broadside Hannover 96 — blameworthy of unsafe driving.
The archetypal offender was handed a year’s roadworthy prohibition and £420 fine.
The instrumentality main said: “I deliberation overwhelmingly the mode successful which Mr Matondo drove the Audi car implicit the region shown connected CCTV is evidently acold beneath what is expected of a driver.”
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