The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Spalding man’s Christmas Day trip to buy milk has led to a £1,000 fine and ban for drink driving.
Vaidas Naprys, 32, of Rhone Walk admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Marie Stace said the defendant was seen driving his Audi A6 car at 8.30am on December 25 twice round a roundabout and then travelling above the speed limit along Spalding Road, Pinchbeck.
She said he was stopped and arrested after providing a positive breath test and giving an evidential sample reading 91 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath, the legal limit being 35.
Ms Stace said Naprys had a previous similar conviction in 2016.
Speaking through an interpreter, Naprys, who was not represented, said he had not drunk that day but had done so the night before and had felt all right to drive after five hours sleep, to go and buy some milk from the shop.
He was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay a total of £185 in court costs and charges.
He was also banned from driving for three years but was offered the drink drivers’ rehabilitation course which would reduce the period of the ban by 36 weeks.
