A fashion model who was caught illegally driving her Olympic boxer boyfriend's Porsche has been spared a road ban after arguing she had only swapped seats with him as he became ill at the wheel. Serena Stregapede, 37, had faced disqualification under the totting up procedure when police discovered she was uninsured to drive the £80,000 Taycan Sport Turismo when she pulled over on the M56 near Stretton, Cheshire. But she said she had only taken over the wheel of the 155mph vehicle when her partner, former Olympic boxer and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Anthony Fowler, 33, suddenly felt unwell and stopped on the hard shoulder as he was driving the couple to a business conference in Birmingham.
The mother-of-three, a former beauty queen who also works as a social media manager for Mr Fowler's health and wellbeing company, said neither of them were aware she was not insured to drive the Porsche and insisted she was planning to pull over at the next motorway service station at the time she was stopped. READ MORE: Sister of man who died on 40th birthday after being put in a 'chokehold' by his friend speaks out as new details emerge At Chester magistrates court, Stregapede, from Aigburth, Liverpool, who already had six points on her licence for using a mobile phone at the wheel of her own car, was found guilty of having no insurance and she had her driving licence endorsed with a further six penalty points. But she was spared a driving ban after explaining she needed to take her.