The head of a company working with children to promote "global peace and tolerance" has set two bad examples to youngsters ? first by speeding and then by lying to Police.

And in Magistrates' Court yesterday Andrew Phillips, CEO of Global Arts Entertainment, was fined $400 for driving at 76 kph and an additional $500 for giving Police false information.

Global Arts Entertainment was set up to assist the Global Arts Foundation charity in promoting the United Nations' Global Peace and Tolerance Campaign.

The court heard how Phillips, 40, of Somerset, was stopped by officers while driving a car along Middle Road, Southampton on September 9. He gave his name as Leon S. Smith ? his cousin ? before being ticketed and given a court date.

A month after the incident Phillips turned himself in to Police and confessed to giving officers a false name, saying that he was "scared but wanted to do the right thing now" ? and was promptly charged with perverting the course of justice.

Smith, who has a 1989 conviction for stealing, was also banned from driving "anything with four wheels" by Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves.

"It's your world," Phillips said to the magistrate after being sentenced