A cleaner was caught driving too fast by the same Wolverhampton speed camera a staggering 13 times in two months.

Geraldine Tavares, aged 36, was also snapped for speeding on four other occasions behind the wheel of her disabled mother’s Citroen C3 in three nearby roads during the same period of time. The saloon was pictured doing between 40 and 61mph in the 30 limit, normally in the early hours of the morning.

Unmarried Tavares, from Billy Wright Close in Warstones, was accused of breaking the speed limit on 17 occasions between June 3 and July 20 last year.

These happened 13 times in Willenhall Road, Wednesfield, twice in nearby Thompson Avenue and also in Parkfield and Wood Green Roads.

Mr Paul Hitchcock, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Magistrates Court yesterday that he would only proceed with four of the offences.

He explained: “These are a sample of the matters before the court that will give you sufficient sentencing powers. All involved the same camera and the same car that belonged to the mother of Miss Tavares. This has now been taken away.”

Tavares pleaded guilty to speeding at 46mph, 48mph and twice at 61mph.

All the offences were committed around 4am in Willenhall Road near Deans Road, where the speed limit is 30 mph. Tavares told magistrates: “I was ill at the time. I was unwell.”

She was banned from driving for two years and fined £100 by magistrates chairman Paul Clewley, who warned: “We will have to inform the DVLA of your health problems.

“You will have to apply to them for your licence if you want to drive again at the end of your disqualification but it will be up to them whether they issue you with a licence again.”

Tavares revealed that her mother’s car had been impounded in October when she was banned from driving for six months under the totting up procedure.

She said after yesterday’s case: “My mother’s car was taken off her because my speeding in it broke the terms of her contract. She will have to wait for two years before reapplying.”