They both appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and were fined and taken off the roads.
George Kerins, 22, of Rue Cohu, Castel, did not have any lights on his car as he drove up St Julian’s Avenue at 2.15am.
Police officers followed him up the road and stopped him in the Grange.
They could smell alcohol on his breath and he said he had drank one pint with a meal earlier.
When asked to get out of the car, they thought he was unsteady on his feet and he was arrested.
A breath test at the Police Station identified 79mcg of alcohol per 100 millilitres of his breath when the legal limit is 35.
Defending, Advocate Samuel Steel said his client had been polite and compliant throughout the process. He offered a full apology for what he had done. There had been no collision, nobody had been hurt, and the area that he had been driving in had been well lit.
Judge Gary Perry said the defendant had made a stupid and dangerous decision to drive.
Kerins, who pleaded guilty, was fined £900 and his driving licence was revoked for two and half years.
Three days earlier, Priya Thomson, 24, of Church Lane, St Sampson’s, was stopped while driving in the Water Lanes, St Peter Port, at about 10pm as her vehicle had a defective light.
She failed a roadside breath test and was arrested. An evidential screening at the Police Station showed there were 74mcg of alcohol per 100 millilitres of her breath.
She admitted the drink-drive offence in court.
Defending, Advocate Amy Davies said her client had been going through a difficult time. Her decision to drink had been poor and her decision to drive had been even worse. She was extremely remorseful for what she had done.
Judge Perry said he accepted the defendant’s submission in her letter that this did not reflect her true character. But he said driving with this level of alcohol in her breath had been rather self-centred and said nothing about the danger she had caused to others.
She too was fined £900 and banned from driving for two and half years.
