A wealthy AI software company owner was today banned from driving after he was caught speeding at 100mph twice in his £200,000 Lamborghini.

Successful tech businessman Stephen Beckitt was caught travelling at 100mph in his high-powered Lamborghini on a busy motorway during rush hour.

Just eight days later the 40-year-old was caught speeding for a second time in his Lamborghini Urus V8 Auto, travelling at 99mph on another motorway.

Beckitt - who founded an AI recruitment software company - already had nine points on his licence at the time.

Beckitt was hauled to Southampton Magistrates Court and was disqualified from driving for six months on Thursday.

The court heard on both occasions, Beckitt was travelling in his Lamborghini Urus V8 Auto - which travels from 0-60mph in 3.6 seconds.

The luxury car retails at £194,169, has a four litre engine, and is said to "merge the soul of a super sports car with a SUV".

The first offence was on the M27 motorway, near Southampton, at 8.27am on March 25, 2023.

The second offence involved Beckitt speeding at 99mph on April 2 last year at 7.10pm, on the M3 near the Hampshire and Surrey border.

Representing Beckitt, Imogen Cox told the Magistrates that at the time of the offence, the motorist had nine points on his licence.

The defence solicitor said: "Mr Beckitt is very aware of, and has been fully advised, of your guidelines that if you should tot somebody then you should tot them.

"He has had no offences since the two offences that you are dealing with and you will know that they were over a very short period of time on a regular road that he was travelling on a daily basis at that time.

"He apologises profusely for these errors.

"He accepts that he is going to be disqualified and has been advised by myself not to drive from 10am this morning."

A totting up ban is a driving ban resulting from getting 12 points on a driving licence, in a three-year period.

Ms Cox said Beckitt earns 'in excess of' the maximum fine that can be issued by the Magistrates 'on a weekly basis'.

According to his LinkedIn, the 40 year old - who is currently living in a posh five storey residential development in Poole, Dorset - founded AI driven recruitment software, SourceBreaker.

In 2020, SourceBreaker was voted the 53rd Fastest Growing Company in Europe - ranking at number 14 in the UK, according to the Financial Times.

Ms Cox continued: "[The disqualification] will have a severe impact on other people - he will have to deal with that as it's entirely his fault."

Sentencing the businessman, Magistrate Doctor Hobbs said: "This is in the middle range and we would therefore add six points to his licence which makes him a tot.

"So, six points, he already had nine points which makes the total of 15 at the time of the offence and we are therefore disqualifying him as a tot for the minimum period of six months."

She continued: "We are fining him for both offences, £2,500 each, we are reducing that by a third for his immediate guilty pleas."

Beckitt - who did not appear in court today due to childcare issues - was disqualified for a total of six months, for both offences.

He was handed a fine of £4,774 which he will have to pay within the next 28 days.