The disgraced millionaire P&O boss was given a six-month driving ban for speeding

Disgraced P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite was banned from driving for six months for speeding.

Branded a “shameless criminal” at a parliamentary hearing into the summary dismissals of 800 staff, Hebblethwaite has been disqualified for various offences.

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The millionaire boss, 51, has been banned for scoring at least 12 points when he joined the ferry company in January 2019.

He reportedly informed P&O of his ban, which expired shortly after he was hired.

He came to the company from the Greene King pub chain.

But a source said: “If P&O had taken a harder line, he might not have gotten the job and they might not have fired all these people.”

P&O Ferries said his ban was “fully understood” when he joined.

The source added: “People now think it’s bitter irony that he was labeled a criminal in Parliament when he had that on his file.

“It was an open secret in the hierarchy at P&O when he told them about it, but they accepted him and let him work anyway.

“In the beginning he had to use drivers and public transport to get around.”