DISGRACED P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite was banned from driving for six months for speeding.
Hebblethwaite, branded a “shameless criminal” at a parliamentary hearing into the no-notice sackings of 800 staff, was hit with the disqualification over separate offences.
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The millionaire boss, 51, was banned for having run up at least 12 points when he joined the ferry company in January 2019.
He is said to have told P&O of his ban, which expired soon after he was taken on.
He joined the company from pub chain Greene King.
But a source said: “If P&O had taken a harder line, he might not have got the job and they might not have sacked all those people.”
P&O Ferries said his ban was “fully understood” when he joined.
The source added: “People now think it is grimly ironic that he was called a criminal in parliament when he had this on his record.
“It was a bit of an open secret among the hierarchy at P&O, as he told them about it, but they still took him on and let him work.
“At the start he had to use drivers and public transport to get around.”
