10:10am Friday 12th March 2010
A YOUNG man took his mother’s car without permission while he was drunk and drove it around Southend without a licence or insurance, a court heard.
James Robinson, 27, had taken the keys to his mum’s Ford Mondeo from a drawer and drove the car out without her permission.
Southend Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday Robinson, of Goya Rise, Shoebury, drove into Southend, where he was stopped in Queensway by police and breathalised. The device showed he had 82 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit is 35 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath.
It was subsequently discovered Robinson did not have any kind of driving licence and was not insured to drive the car.
At an earlier hearing, Robinson had admitted driving the car without the owner’s permission, driving without a licence or insurance and also drink-driving.
He told the court he was an alcoholic. Last year, he had sought help from an alcohol treatment programme, but had relapsed at the period of the offences.
He added: “I’m sorry for what I done.”
For taking the car without permission, he was given a 12-month community order, which includes 12 months of supervision, a course on alcohol misuse and 100 hours of unpaid community work.
For drink-driving, Robinson was fined £75 and banned for 18 months. For driving without insurance he was fined £75 and given penalty points. No separate fine was imposed for driving without a licence but he will get penalty points on any future licence he applies for in the next four years.
He was also ordered to pay £85 costs.
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