Drink-driver left shoes at scene

A drunken motorist took his partner’s car before crashing it just a few metres down the road and running off – leaving his shoes behind.

John McGregor was more than four times the legal drinkdrive limit when the incident occurred on August 27.

Fiscal depute Tina Dickie said McGregor had been “heavily under the influence of alcohol” at the time.

He took the green Landrover Defender and drove just 200 yards before neighbours heard a “bang” as he hit their cars.

Ms Dickie said: “They looked outside and saw their Volvo and Ford were damaged. The Ford was resting against the Volvo.

“They saw the accused running in the direction of Tweedsmuir Road.

One of his trainers had fallen off as he ran down the street. Police found the other shoe inside the Landrover.

Solicitor David Holmes, representing McGregor, said the 24-year-old had admitted the offences at the first opportunity.

McGregor, of Tweedsmuir Road, Perth, pled guilty to driving the car on the city’s Kingswell Place with 120 mics of alcohol in his system. The legal limit is 22.

He further admitted driving without due care and attention by colliding with two other cars, and to having no insurance.

Sheriff gillian Wade banned him from the roads for two years, ordered that he carry out 170 hours of unpaid work and imposed supervision and alcohol treatment orders.