Overview
- Charlton was sentenced to four years in prison and disqualified from driving for four years and seven months, a ruling delivered Wednesday after he admitted 10 counts of dangerous driving and four counts of perverting the course of justice.
- Police were alerted after he posted video clips showing motorway speeds up to 191mph and other dangerous manoeuvres such as drifting around a roundabout and weaving through traffic.
- Officers seized his BMW and found telematics data that recorded speeds above 107mph on multiple occasions over the year before his crash.
- The investigation uncovered a scheme in which Charlton paid others to accept penalty points and a fabricated note on his phone blaming another driver, actions that led to the perverting the course of justice charges.
- The case highlights how public social media posts and vehicle data can build a digital record of repeated reckless driving, a development likely to strengthen future police prosecutions and affect the player’s club and family life.