Inverness driver refused to give blood samples due to fear of needles
Published: 12:30, 07 March 2025
| Updated: 08:12, 08 March 2025
Police received an anonymous phone call about a motorist and tracked him down with the intention of testing him for drink or drugs.
But when officers caught up with 24-year-old Patrick Stewart, of Longman Caravan Park, Inverness on the city's Glenurquhart Road, he refused to co-operate with providing blood samples to check for the intoxicants, Sheriff David Harvie heard.
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Stewart appeared from custody at Inverness Sheriff Court and pleaded guilty to driving without insurance and two offences of failing to provide samples, committed on March 1 and the early hours of March 2.
He told police that he had a phobia for needles.
Stewart was fined a total of £640 and banned from driving for a year.
