Speeding patient 'needed toilet'

The court heard MacKenzie was receiving treatment in Edinburgh

A cancer patient has told a court that he was speeding because radiation treatment had left him needing to go to the toilet.

William MacKenzie admitted to driving at 102mph in a 70mph zone on the A9 Inverness to Perth road on 24 March.

Inverness Sheriff Colin Scott-Mackenzie accepted that there were mitigating factors in the man's case.

He imposed a lesser sentence than normal of a three-month driving ban and a £100 fine.

Mr MacKenzie, 56, had been having treatment at a cancer centre in Edinburgh when he committed the offence at Daviot.

He told the court: "To be honest, I was needing the toilet."

Sheriff Scott-Mackenzie told the accused, from Inverness, that he could have driven away from the A9 and found himself a bush to relieve himself if he had been that desperate.