Wolves owner Steve Morgan has been ordered to pay more than £1,300 after claiming he could not remember who was driving his Mercedes when it was caught speeding.

The property tycoon branded the case “absolutely ridiculous” after telling a court it was not clear who was behind the wheel of his car, registered 1 WFC, when it was caught doing 64mph in a 50mph zone.

Morgan asked for photographic evidence  before writing to police to say he did not know who was driving.

A court heard he had driven from his home at Carden Hall near Chester to Ewloe, a small town in North Wales, on the morning his silver car was snapped in roadworks.

Moments later his estates manager David Edwards drove the car back but realised Morgan had left his glasses in the car.

He returned to Ewloe driving through the same roadworks, on the A55 at Broughton in Cheshire.

Both he and Mr Edwards said they did not know who was behind the wheel when it broke the speed limit, at around 9.30am on May 6.

But Flintshire magistrates said they were not satisfied that Morgan did not know who was driving.

They convicted him of failing to tell police who was driving the car and fined him £600, imposed three penalty points and ordered him to pay £715 costs. But Morgan reacted angrily, saying: “For something I’m not sure I even did, it’s ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.”

His lawyer Mike Gray said an appeal was planned but the businessman would take seven days to “take stock”.

He said Morgan was an “incredibly busy man” whose day in court had cost him a lot of money.