Driving while more than three-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit has led to a foolish motorist being banned from the road for three years.
Hugh Connelly will also be tagged for his potentially dangerous actions on Airdrie’s Black Street on November 2 last year.
The 49-year-old was discovered to have driven with 81 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath – the limit being 22.
Connelly, of Croy, was taken into custody at Coatbridge police office and later owned up to the offence at Airdrie Sheriff Court.
Reports looking into his background were ordered and he returned to the dock for sentencing last week.
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Defence solicitor Ian Smart informed the court that his client recognised the foolishness of his actions and was aware he faced a ban from the
road.
Sheriff Morag Shankland told Connelly: “You will be disqualified [from driving] for a period of three years.”
Connelly was also placed under a restriction of liberty order that will see him tagged, and confined to his home between the hours of 7pm and 7am, for the next three months.
Sheriff Shankland also told the procurator fiscal she was refusing the Crown’s application for forfeiture of the vehicle involved in the incident.
