Jail for boozer who was FOUR times over drink drive limit in Mansfield

Petras Juozunaitis borrowed his son’s Honda Accord for the short trip from his George Street home, but was stopped on Quaker Way, at 11am, on September 17.

A test revealed he had 137 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

The court heard he was handed a three-year driving ban in February 2016, after he failed to provide a specimen for analysis.

Harry Bevan, mitigating, said the 57-year-old had been drinking whisky at home when he made the “poor decision” to drive to the local shop.

He said imprisonment would have a big impact on his wife of 35 years, and his 30-year-old son, as they were about to move into their own home.

Juozunaitis admitted drink driving and driving while disqualified, via a Lithuanian interpreter, when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Wednesday.

District judge Jonathan Taaffe said: “You have deliberately chosen to disobey a court order - that in itself is serious.

“But when I put into the mix the fact that you’re driving at four times the legal limit - and I set that against your previous conviction for failing to provide - it makes it impossible for me to deal with this matter in any other way than an immediate custodial sentence.

“I have a public duty to uphold court orders and to make it clear that people who drink and drive are a risk to themselves and other people - and I will protect members of the public from drivers like yourself.”

He handed Juozunaitis a 14 week prison sentence, banned him from driving for 38 weeks, and ordered him to pay a £115 government surcharge.