Banned: Engineer caught at services more than three times drink-drive limit after leaving do
An office-based engineer now faces taking three train journeys to get to work after being banned for drink driving after attending a leaving do.
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Richard Peter Banks, aged 47, of Tregynon, near Newtown in Powys was caught after a member of the public saw his BMW X1 being driven "from side to side" at Mile End Services near Oswestry on August 15.
Prosecutor Charlotte Morgan told Telford Magistrates Court that Banks had been arrested by the police near the KFC takeaway. He was recorded as having a lower reading of 116 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, when the limit is 35.
Banks pleaded guilty to drink driving at more than three times the legal limit when he appeared in court on Tuesday .
Sandeep Kumar, representing Banks, said his client accepts that he made a "poor decision".
Banks works as an office-based engineer in the Warrington area and had gone to a leaving do.
