Drink-driving lawyer handed fine and ban

An Aberdeen lawyer has been caught drinkdriving for a second time, after deciding to drive home from a church confirmation ceremony in Perthshire.

Linda Beedie, a director and partner at First Employment Law in Aberdeen, had planned to stay at a friend’s house in Perthshire following the religious ceremony, at which she had “a few glasses of wine”.

But when the pair had an argument and fell out, the 61-year-old decided to hop into her car and drive back home to Marykirk, Aberdeenshire.

Two separate witnesses called the police with concerns the lawyer was not fit to drive.

Beedie, of Esk Drive, Marykirk, pled guilty to driving with 34 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath.

The legal limit microgrammes.

Sheriff William Summers banned Beedie from driving for three years and ordered her to pay a fine of £1,275.