SPEED cop Andy Brandish added TV star Denise Van Outen to his list of celebrity speeders - two years after nabbing her pop icon husband-to-be Jay Kay.

SPEED cop Andy Brandish added TV star Denise Van Outen to his list of celebrity speeders - two years after nabbing her pop icon husband-to-be Jay Kay.

Both have fallen victim to Sgt Brandish's laser gun as he tracks motorists speeding on the M40 motorway. Jay Kay was banned for 42 days and fined £540 after Sgt Brandish caught him doing 111mph in his £200,000 Ferrari on the motorway in August, 1998.

Two years later Sgt Brandish wielded his laser tracking gun with equal success to trap Denise as she sped from her Princes Risborough mansion she shares with Jay Kay in her new Volkswagen Beetle - a present from Jay Kay.

Denise was ordered to attend Beaconsfield Magistrates' Court on August 31 after she sent a note to magistrates saying she could afford to pay any fines they thought fit.

Magistrates decided Denise would have to show up to answer to the court and explain why she was speeding at more than 30mph over the limit. She is due to appear in court on September 28.

The absent star pleaded guilty by letter to speeding at 73mph on a temporary 40mph stretch of the M40.

Sgt Brandish also collared former Riverdance frontman Michael Flatley as he sped along the M40 at 129mph in August 1998 - two weeks before catching Jay Kay. Flatley was banned from driving for three months and given a £1,000 fine by Thame magistrates after pleading guilty to speeding in his £105,000 Ferrari.

Sgt Brandish said: 'It was just a coincidence that I managed to catch them.'

Sgt Brandish's colleague PC Andy Rotherham, of Thames Valley traffic police, said: 'Andy always seems to get the celebrities. He's got a sort of second sense when it comes to pointing the laser.'