Drive Rap For Drunk

Mirror UK 4 May 2005

A DRIVER was more than four times the drink limit when he crashed on the way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a court heard yesterday.

Mark Wilkins gave a breath-test reading of 149 - the legal limit is 35 - after driving his Ford Fiesta into a bollard. Wilkins, 42, from Featherstone, West Yorks, admitted drink-driving. He was banned from driving for five years and given a two-year community rehabilitation order. His solicitor, Katie Edmondson, told Wakefield magistrates: "He has now come to terms with the fact he has a problem."