Drink-driver caught in Inverness car park
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A roofer was fined a total of £1000 and banned from driving for a year after appearing at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Darren McCann (30) of High Street, Fort William, was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a car in Raigmore Hospital car park on January 10 last year.
He admitted driving without a valid licence on the same date.
The trial before Sheriff Margaret Neilson heard that police received a report of a possible drink-driver in the car park and officers were sent to investigate.
The officers saw McCann with another man sitting in the driver’s seat with two almost empty bottles of Buckfast in the back seat.
A breathalyser reading of 42mcgs of alcohol showed he was almost twice the legal drink-drive limit of 22mcgs.
Sheriff Neilson rejected McCann’s evidence that he was having a drink to steady his nerves before going into the hospital for a heart check.
He said that he and his friend intended to stay at a nearby hotel that night before driving back to Lochaber from the car park the following morning.
McCann told her that he did not know where the bottles came from as he did not drink the fortified wine, and only had a vodka and lemonade.
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