The owner of Hastings Pier and Eastbourne Pier has been fined hundreds of pounds for speeding at 90mph in his gold Tesla.
Sheikh Abid Gulzar, who owns a fleet of the Elon Musk company’s electric cars, was caught in a police speed trap on the Polegate bypass last July.
The limit on that stretch of the A27 is 70mph, but Gulzar, 78, was clocked travelling at 90mph.
He was charged on 28 November, and his case dealt with by a magistrates at Brighton Magistrates Court on 8 January this year.
Gulzar, who was not required to attend the hearing which was held in private, did not respond to indicate a plea, but was found guilty.
He also did not provide any mitigation.
Gulzar, whose address in the court records is his Albany Lions Hotel in Grand Parade, Eastbourne, was fined £220 and ordered to pay £90 costs and a victim surcharge of £88, bringing the court bill to £398.
He was also given three points on his licence.
In September last year, Gulzar’s company Lions Hastings Pier Limited went into voluntary liquidation, but he insisted the pier would not be closing.
He bought the pier, reportedly for less than £100,000, from the Hastings Pier Charity in 2018, after it had been rebuilt following a blaze with £12.4 million of Heritage Lottery funding.
