The stress of a police investigation and £60,000 debt were among the factors that led to a 54-year-old man to drink drive, a court heard.
James Thorpe of Southwark Pass, Basildon, pleaded guilty to drink driving at Basildon Magistrates.
He was disqualified from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay a £100 fine and £70 court costs after his defence solicitor Rebecca Mundy explained the exceptional circumstances leading up to the incident on Wednesday, July 14, when he was stopped by police in his blue Skoda.
On the night in question, Thorpe, who is £60,000 in debt from a failed haulage business, was celebrating police dropping an investigation against him but had an argument with his girlfriend in the pub and drove home without thinking about the amount he had drunk.
Published Friday July 23, 2004
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