Police were today examining a photograph apparently showing Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson using a mobile phone while driving.
Adam Blake, 22, and Hayley Byford, 21, claim they photographed Clarkson on the phone as he did 70mph in a rare 1970s 6.3-litre left-hand drive V8 600 Grosser Mercedes on the M40 in Oxfordshire.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said today: “We have been handed the photograph and we will be looking at it with a view to a possible prosecution.
“If we have got evidence we think could be supported in court, we will take action.”
The photograph was given to police by the Daily Mirror newspaper, which was initially sent it by Mr Blake and Miss Byford.
Mr Blake told the newspaper yesterday: “We could not believe that we’d caught him out. My girlfriend saw he was on his mobile. She grabbed hers and… Read the full story