A drink driver who was spotted with her broken leg in a plaster cast sticking out of the side window of her car as she swerved across a busy road has been jailed.
Police officers watched in amazement as Gail Powell, 38, perched her plaster cast on the window sill of the driver's side as she struggled for control of her car.
The ride came to an end when she screamed abuse at a police patrol car coming in the other direction.
Powell, of Elswick Avenue, on Chorlton's Merseybank estate, was yesterday sentenced to five months jail for dangerous and drunken driving.
Gail Powell's friend, Sharon Lloyd Andrews, said: "Gail is someone who is quite misunderstood and needs help rather than being locked away. Maybe she's been let down by the powers that be. At the time that this happened she didn't have anybody.
"Her mum and dad have died and her ex-husband also died recently. She is not an alcoholic."
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