CarlMetro
6th June 2007, 10:53
................almost four times over the legal drink-drive limit, second time he's been convicted of the same offence within ten years and yet he gets a three month jail sentence, suspended for two years and another five year ban.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6724293.stm
A motorist who admitted to police he had drunk up to 25 pints of lager before getting behind the wheel of his car has been spared a prison term.
Stuart Walker could not stand unaided and was unable to give a breathalyser test when police found him in a lay-by.
Walker, 60, of Ashbury Close, Cambridge, admitted driving while over the limit.
He was given a three-month jail term, suspended for two years, and was banned from driving for five years.
Magistrate Elizabeth Cox told the crane operator: "This is totally unacceptable and very dangerous behaviour.
"This could have had very serious consequences not just for yourself but for other members of the public."
Walker, who was also convicted of drink-driving in 1998, had driven his Peugeot to the Woolpack pub in the village of Sawston and then drove home after his marathon drinking session on 14 May.
He pulled into a lay-by on the A1301 Sawston bypass to phone his son, but a passing police car pulled in and officers smelled alcohol on Walker's breath, the court heard.
A breath test later found he was nearly four times over the legal limit with 131 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the legal level for driving is 35 micrograms.
Interviewed the following day, Walker told officers he had drunk between 20 and 25 pints and could not remember leaving the pub just after 2200 BST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6724293.stm
A motorist who admitted to police he had drunk up to 25 pints of lager before getting behind the wheel of his car has been spared a prison term.
Stuart Walker could not stand unaided and was unable to give a breathalyser test when police found him in a lay-by.
Walker, 60, of Ashbury Close, Cambridge, admitted driving while over the limit.
He was given a three-month jail term, suspended for two years, and was banned from driving for five years.
Magistrate Elizabeth Cox told the crane operator: "This is totally unacceptable and very dangerous behaviour.
"This could have had very serious consequences not just for yourself but for other members of the public."
Walker, who was also convicted of drink-driving in 1998, had driven his Peugeot to the Woolpack pub in the village of Sawston and then drove home after his marathon drinking session on 14 May.
He pulled into a lay-by on the A1301 Sawston bypass to phone his son, but a passing police car pulled in and officers smelled alcohol on Walker's breath, the court heard.
A breath test later found he was nearly four times over the legal limit with 131 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the legal level for driving is 35 micrograms.
Interviewed the following day, Walker told officers he had drunk between 20 and 25 pints and could not remember leaving the pub just after 2200 BST