FORMER professional footballer Peter Ade Akinbiyi, who lives in Dutton, has been fined £1,000 for having too many passengers in an un-insured Audi A5.

Flintshire Magistrates’ Court heard today, Friday., how Akinbiyi was stopped driving on the A55 in North Wales when there were five adults – two in the front and three in the back – and a child aged about ten or 12 squeezed in the back with them.

Akinbiyi, aged 40, of Northwich Road did not attend the hearing and was convicted in his absence of carrying passengers in a manner likely to cause danger, and no insurance.

The former Bristol City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Leicester City and Crystal Palace striker was also given six penalty points.

Shaun Bartlett-Evans, prosecuting, told how officers in a marked police car came up behind the black Audi A5 on the west bound carriageway of the A55 at about 12.40 on Saturday October 25 last year near Bodelwyddan.

The vehicle was pulled over at the St George junction, Akinbiyi was behind the wheel, and there were four other adults and a child in the vehicle.

When it was pointed out, he replied: “Yes, I know, sorry.”

The vehicle was not registered to him or insured.

Magistrates heard the Colwyn Bay player-coach, who also played for Stoke City, Burnley and Sheffield United, already had three penalty points on his driving licence for a mobile phone offence back in February 2012.