MAN TOO DRUNK TO KNOW IF HE HAD PROPOSED!

A MAN who was so drunk he could not remember if he had proposed to his partner woke up in a police cell.

Darren Cotterill, 36, had intended to surprise his girlfriend of nine months with a proposal on a night out in Chester, but he became so bladdered she left him at the Travelodge hotel they were staying at, Chester Magistrates’ Court heard.

Prosecutor Rob Youds said staff at the hotel had to call police on September 7 as Cotterill would not leave his bed after the check-out time, and was still intoxicated.

Police gave him a lift to the nearest railway station but Cotterill started acting up and was warned about his behaviour, before he knocked over a sign, said: “F**k,” and was promptly arrested.

Cotterill, of Wythenshawe, Manchester, was subject to a 10-week suspended prison term for drinkdriving, and had 12 convictions for 22 offences on his record.

But magistrates chose not to activate his suspended sentence on the grounds the new offence – one of using abusive words to cause alarm or distress – was not one he would have gone to prison for.

Defending, Claire Parrott said Cotterill HEARING: The court in Chester had an issue with booze and, since his last offence, had been sober for several months.

Fortunately, he had since re-proposed to his fiancée and she had said yes, the court heard.

Cotterill’s existing 12-month community order was extended to 18 months and he was fined £230.