The manager of a restaurant has been banned from driving for 28 days after he admitted a speeding offence.

But he was warned that he could have been banned from driving for six months under the totting up procedure.

Shohidul Ismal Ali, of Kingsway, Chester, admitted driving a Lexus at 108mph in a 70mph area on the A55 at Broughton on May 22.

He already had nine penalty points on his licence.

Defending solicitor Michael Gray said his client, 32, was the general manager of the Indian Lounge Restaurant at Nannerch on the Mold to Denbigh Road.

It was his job to keep everything going and to give lifts to members of staff.

That day, he was in work when there was a family emergency and he had to return home quickly.

His mother, who was frail and elderly, had been taken ill.

Mr Gray said he would make an application to the court that his client, who already had nine penalty points, would suffer exceptional hardship if he was disqualified.

But District Judge Gwyn Jones said that he would use his discretion to ban the defendant for 28 days for the offence.

That meant that the nine penalty points would remain on his licence.