A top education chief has been banned from the road after being caught driving at nearly seven times the legal drink driving limit.
Andrew Griffiths was nabbed by police close to his home in Banchory, Aberdeenshire in April.
At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, he got a two-year ban and a £1000 fine. Police said Griffiths’s reading of nearly 154micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath was one of the highest ever recorded in the area. The legal limit is 22micrograms.
Griffiths, a former headteacher of Mackie Academy, in Stonehaven, and Gordon School, in Huntly, was seen as a rising council star in the north-east political scene.
An Aberdeenshire Council source said: “Other council employees who behave like this have been sacked or demoted.”
Last September, Griffiths, 51, was seconded from his job as head of education at the council to be regional coordinator with the Northern Alliance national education team, tasked with raising children’s attainment in schools.
A council spokesman said: “Mr Griffiths’s conviction is being taken very seriously.”
