Mum was more than four times over drink drive limit on school run

A mother faces jail for doing the school run while four and half times the drink-drive limit.

Debbie Leonard, 36, whose children are seven, 10 and 12, left her car blocking the road and staggered into the school grounds.



Police were called when she swore at the school lollipop man. She told them she had been to lunch with a friend but had drunk only a small amount.

Her lawyer John Gallagher told a court that Leonard of Macclesfield, Cheshire, admitted drink driving but did not have an alcohol problem and was a "social drinker". She intended to leave her car at the school and take two of her children home in a friend's vehicle, Macclesfield magistrates heard.

Mr Gallagher said single mum Leonard had been "suffering anxiety about unpaid bills". He said Leonard had been warned she might be jailed. She will be sentenced later.