A Tatler-featured interior designer who boasted about her Porsche on Instagram was disqualified from driving after racking up an astonishing seven speeding charges in ten months after moving to the UK from Moscow.

Russian Aiya Lisova told magistrates that she didn't understand how the British penalty points system worked and hadn't been cautious enough of speed cameras.

The 38-year-old interiors star emigrated to the UK on a talent visa at the end of 2023 and told magistrates the £80,000 car was 'a big part of my lifestyle in London.'

But she admitted: 'This all came down to my misunderstanding of how points work here.'

Ms Lisova, who previously worked in interior design in Moscow, appeared in court on Thursday April 30 charged with three speeding offences.

Jerry Josiah, prosecuting, said she was caught by a safety camera on July 28 last year on the A4 in Hounslow doing 69mph in a 60mph zone.

After that, she was snapped by another camera in Earls Court, west London, on September 17 doing 25mph when she should have been doing 20mph.

And less than a month later, on October 13 in Park Lane, Westminster, a camera caught her at 26mph in a 20mph zone. 

All three offences were carried out in her silver 2019 Porsche Carrera 911, which can cost as much as £120,000 new.

High-earning Lisova has regularly posted of her love of the fast cars, which can do 0 to 60mph in under four seconds.

She said she had driven across Europe in the car and also pictured it outside her previous home in upmarket Chelsea.

Video footage on her Instagram account shows her on a road trip with the offending vehicle in Snowdonia in July, where the Porsche takes centre stage.

And in another post she says: 'I've been driving for as long as I can remember.

'My first real road trips started from Moscow, across Europe, all the way through Italy to Bari, and then by ferry to Croatia and back home again.

'Back then it was in a small roadster, the BMW Z4.

'This year marks ten years since I started driving a Porsche.

'Life in London changed quite a bit once the 911 arrived.

'It became the car I would take everywhere - across Europe, to St. Moritz for skiing, to Milan for Salone and exhibitions.

'Six months ago I even moved to Milan in it. From Milan I drove to Nice.

'And now I'm on the road again - heading through Austria, then Switzerland, before eventually returning to London.

'At some point a car stops being just a car. It becomes a small moving home. And a bit of a partner in crime.'

Lisova runs her own interior design business, AIYA Bureau, whose projects have featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House & Garden and Tatler Homes.

She regularly posts on the high-end houses she transforms, as well as the prime market in the UK and other countries, and she has won major design awards.

Willesden Magistrates Court in north west London heard how Lisova already had 12 points on her licence before the most recent three charges, which each carried a further three points and would have sent her points tally soaring to 21.

She pleaded guilty to each charge and rather than choosing to claim that the temporary loss of her licence would cause exceptional hardship, she accepted a six-month driving ban.

The 12 points on her licence previously related to four offences between December 2024 and May 2025.

Chair of the bench, Nigel Sears, told her that he was not happy with her speeding record.

Mr Sears warned her: 'If you do drive whilst disqualified you will be brought back to court and the sentence will get much stronger.

'With repeated behaviour it can end up with imprisonment. Please ensure you do not drive in the next six months.'

And he added: 'You have been very honest about your income so we will give you three sets of fines.'

Lisova, of Brentford, west London, was fined £615, ordered to pay a £246 surcharge and £200 in costs, making a total of £1061.

She said: 'This was down to being stupid and not being cautious of the cameras.

'The best way to drive in London is to stick to 20mph and not accelerate any more.'