Mum of 7 is ordered to wear no-booze tag after 10-hour bender
Delatouche was handed a 60-day alcohol abstinence order and now has to wear a sobriety tag ankle bracelet.
The pioneering devices detect alcohol levels in wearers’ sweat, alerting the authorities to any breaches of abstinence orders.
Delatouche is the first woman and only the second person to be fitted with a tag in Lincolnshire, one of the areas where the scheme is being piloted.
She repeatedly thanked the magistrates for the order and pledged to keep out of trouble, saying she did not drink during the week but liked a bottle of wine on a Friday night.
Morris was not given a tag because she scored 37 out of 40 on a drinking scale assessment and the devices are not suitable for people with alcohol dependency. Instead she was ordered to have six months’ alcohol treatment and fined £20.
Both women were ordered to pay £100 compensation, £85 costs and a Government-imposed surcharge.
After the hearing Delatouche vowed “things will only get better”, adding: “My drinking is under control. The weather makes you want to drink.
“We are young, free and single. We got a bit excited and in the heat of the moment we took it the wrong way.
“I have got seven kids that I want to look up to me and not to look up to me like a bad one.” £85 victims’