Drink driver caught on the way home from mum's funeral
Published Date:
02 July 2008
A depressed disabled man was pulled over by police on the way home from his mother's funeral and found to be more than three times the drink-drive limit.
Christopher Robert Thomas, 52, of Warrior Gardens, St Leonards, pleaded guilty to drink driving on June 18 before magistrates in Hastings this week.
The court heard that he was pulled over at 8.30pm on the seafront at St Leonards and found to have 109 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg.
Rosalind Crook, mitigating, told the court that he had suffered quite a few bereavements.
"He was suffering emotionally that day," she said.
Magistrates ordered that Thomas undertake an alcohol treatment programme as part of a 12 month supervision order, banned him for two years, reduced to 18 months on completion of a drink-driving rehabilitation course, fined him £150 and ordered him to pay £60 costs and a £15 surcharge.
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02 July 2008 11:11 AM
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