Millionaire could face jail for drink driving

Friday 22 June 2012 A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE could face jail after police found him almost three times the drink drive limit behind the wheel of his luxury car.

Former waste disposal magnate Euan Snowie, 43, was spoken to by police who saw him in his £60,000 S Class Mercedes at 6:15pm in the main street of Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire.

Officers noted he had “a strong smell of alcohol” and asked him to step out of the car.

Stirling Sheriff Court heard he was taken to the a police station where he failed a breath test. The court heard this was his second drink driving conviction, as he was given a 12-month ban in 2002 after refusing to take a breath test.

Snowie, of Boquhan House, Kippen, Stirlingshire, admitted yesterday that he drove while almost three times the legal limit on Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan on 24 May. He had 102 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35

Sheriff Wyllie Robertson said: “I think it is inevitable that I will have to call for reports given the previous conviction.

“The most serious of disposals have to be considered, given the conviction, and the high reading. I intend to impose an interim disqualification.”

Sheriff Robertson sentence until 18 July.

Snowie, whose firm was paid millions of pounds to get rid of cow carcasses during the footand-mouth crisis, did not comment as he left court. In May 2007, he asked Stirling Sheriff Court to exempt Boquhan estate from the government’s landmark “right to roam” legislation.

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