A Callander woman with a record of drink driving-related offences was this week banned from driving for 18 months.
Ellen Gordon, of Finlay Road, was also placed on supervision for two years and given a curfew for eight months.
The 42-year-old had admitted failing to provide two specimens of breath for analysis, at Finlay Road on December 8 last year, required to ascertain her ability to drive, or the proportion of alcohol in her breath, when she had been driving a car there.
Gordon further admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at her Finlay Road address on December 8 by repeatedly shouting, swearing, brandishing a bottle and uttering threats of violence.
Gordon’s defence agent Virgil Crawford told Sheriff Derek Hamilton that his client had been engaging with alcohol and drugs service Change Grow Live as well as Alcoholics Anonymous.
She was also due to start a new job working two days per week, he said.
Given Gordon’s previous convictions she was “well aware of the full range of disposals available to the court”.
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However, there were no outstanding court cases, Mr Crawford added.
The lawyer also pointed out that she was suitable for unpaid work with light duties and she could also be tagged as a direct alternative to a custodial sentence.
Sheriff Hamilton told Gordon this was her fifth drink driving-related conviction, adding: “It’s remarkable that something more serious hasn’t happened.
“If you continue to drink and drive it’s going to end in catastophe at some point.
“I don’t want you on the road for some considerable time.”
He sentenced her to a community payback order comprising two years’ supervision as well as a restriction of liberty order confining her to her home for eight months between the hours of 7pm and 7am. She was further disqualified from driving for 18 months.
The sentence was a direct alternative to custody.
