Woman admits drink driving with a baby and kids in her car

Driver faces jail for being five times over the limit

A woman is facing jail after she was caught drinkdriving while five- times the limit – with a baby and two other young children in her car.

Ranjina Kaur Devine had an 11-month-old baby, a 22-monthold toddler and a four-year-old in her vehicle when she was caught by police.

Officers were tipped off that she may have been drinkdriving after she was spotted leaving Soar at intu Braehead, Renfrew.

Devine, 36, was stopped by officers in King’s Inch Road, Renfrew, in April and failed a roadside breath test.

The details emerged when Devine appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court to plead guilty to the offences.

She admitted to two charges – driving her Vauxhall Astra with 108 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath and driving the black five- door hatchback while uninsured.

Procurator Fiscal Depute Colin Wilson said officers had received an anonymous call that Devine may have been driving after drinking and went to answer the call.

They spotted her in slow moving traffic and got her to pull over – noticing she had the three kids in the car with her.

She was slurring her words, her eyes were glazed and she smelled of alcohol.

An arrangement had to be made for someone to come and take the children from her so she could be taken to the police station for further breath tests to be carried out.

At the station, she blew a reading of 108 microgrammes – nearly fivetimes the 22mcg limit.

She was also charged with endangering young children and exposing them to “significant risk of accident or injury.”

Devine, of Clarkston, denied exposing the “children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health” by carrying them “as passengers in a motor vehicle whilst” she was “heavily under the influence of alcohol, placing them at significant risk of accident or injury” and prosecutors accepted her not guilty plea to that charge.

After hearing that Devine claimed she was over the limit at the time because she had been drinking at a spontaneous house party the night before, Sheriff Colin Pettigrew called for background reports to be prepared ahead of sentencing and adjourned the case until next month.

Devine could be caged when she returns to the dock to learn her fate.