Drink-drivers are banned from roads
THE following motorists were banned from the roads by Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court for drink-driving.
■■Joshua Fearon, 26, of Richmond Road, Pear Tree, was fined £500 and was ordered to pay £300 costs, a £50 victim surcharge and was disqualified for 16 months for drink-driving in Richmond Road, Pear Tree, on July 14, 2020. He had 71 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.
■■Tendai Mutasa, 44, of Osmaston Park Road, was fined £500 and was ordered to pay £100 costs, a £50 victim surcharge and was disqualified for three years for drink-driving in Wilson Street, Derby, on September 13, 2020. He had 73 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.
■■Bogdan Dinca, 39, of Queen Street, Burton, was fined £400 and was ordered to pay £85 costs, a £40 victim surcharge and was disqualified for 12 months for drink-driving in Barton Turns, Barton Under Needwood, on August 18, 2021. He had 57 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.
■■Jason Smith, 49, of Ormond Street, Langley Mill, was fined £180 and was ordered to pay £310 costs, a £128 victim surcharge and was disqualified for 22 months for drink-driving in Eagle Street, Heage, on April 18, 2017. He had 64 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.
■■Mary Stokes, 34, of Isleworth Drive, Mackworth, was jailed for 38 weeks and was ordered to pay a £128 victim surcharge and was disqualified for three years and two months for taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, drink-driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance in Friar Gate, Derby, on July 23, 2021. She had 83 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35. The offences saw her breach a suspended sentence imposed in April for driving while disqualified in Doncaster.
■■Alexandra Hodgkinson, 52, of Alonso Close, Chellaston, was jailed for 28 days, suspended for a year and was ordered to pay £85 costs, a £128 victim surcharge and was disqualified for four years for drink-driving on the M6 in Charnock, Lancashire, on August 7, 2021. She had 61 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.