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Blue star Lee Ryan claims he’s too broke to pay £1,500 court fine after being disqualified from driving
Lee Ryan has claimed he is too broke to pay a £1,500 court fine as the Covid-19 pandemic has left him with no money.The Blue star appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court via remote link from Spain on Thursday, where he was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £660 for failing to provide information about who was behind the wheel of his car.When ordered to pay £1,501, including court costs, the 37-year-old said: ‘I just don’t have any money’ and explained he was ‘out of work at the moment due to Covid’.Presiding Justice Alison Marsh said that magistrates took into account that the music industry was ‘severely hit’ by the coronavirus pandemic and decided to charge the singer for one offence, meaning the fine was less than it
