A TEENAGER who pushed his souped-up Audi to 104mph won an appeal against his sentence for speeding.

Charlie Round was banned from driving by the magistrates last month after he was caught speeding in his Audi S3 on the M4 between junctions 15 and 16.

At Swindon Crown court the 19-year-old’s lawyer, Jessica Ward, questioned whether the justices had correctly applied the law.

Her client had no points on his licence and while he acknowledged he had been speeding, the road was empty at the time.

Round was a commercial traveller, going around the country showing clothes samples to retailers on behalf of different brands.

An incredulous Judge Peter Crabtree interjected: “Is he seriously performing this role in the current climate when travel isn’t something that you should be doing?”

Ms Ward said: “He states to me he was unaware of how much he was speeding. He’s finding this incredibly embarrassing having to explain this to everyone.”

She said her client admitted he had not been properly concentrating but that the roads were clear.

Judge Peter Crabtree, sitting alongside two magistrates, said: “The court has concerns about anyone who’s 19, driving a fast vehicle at 104mph on a road and particularly so when we’re told that they had lost concentration to the extent that they had didn’t know how fast they were going.

“That led to a serious discussion whether this was a young man who had to sit his driving test again, as much to understand exactly how fast to drive on the roads particularly motorways.”

But the court reduced the length of his driving ban to 56 days.

Judge Crabtree said: “He understands if he drives a motor vehicle during the course of that disqualification period he will appear back before the magistrates charged with disqualified driving and it is highly likely he will go to prison.”