She once boasted of ‘bombing around’ in her beloved Smart car, owned a Jaguar, a Range Rover and a Rolls-Royce – and described motoring as her lifelong ‘guilty pleasure’.
But crime writer Lynda La Plante’s passion for cars has now ended in a six-month driving ban after she amassed a staggering 24 penalty points for speeding through 20mph zones.
And the punishment comes more than eight decades after the Prime Suspect creator’s family was shattered by a devastating road tragedy.
For the Daily Mail can reveal that La Plante, 83, grew up in the shadow of the death of her sister, Dail, who
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