A woman who teaches young offenders about alcohol awareness has been banned from driving for 12 months for driving while over the limit, despite friends admitting they spiked her drinks with vodka during a Christmas night out in Kingston.
Susan Evans, 28, of Cambridge Road, Walton, told Kingston magistrates she could lose her house because the disqualification endangered her job teaching at a Staines charity, and would leave her unable to commute to a second job as a pastry chef. Evans pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal limit, but told Kingston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, April 27, there were special reasons why she should not lose her licence.
After deliberating for an hour, magistrates told a visibly shocked Evans she should have detected the alcohol, banned her from driving for a year and fined her £335 plus costs.
Lead magistrate Anna Troiano said: “It was the defendant’s responsibility to make clear the reason she was not drinking was because she was driving – and she did not do so. We do not find this case has special reasons."
2 comments:
Nice "friends."
No kidding. Time for some new ones.
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