The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Spalding takeaway delivery driver has been ordered to take six months alcohol treatment and banned from driving for two and a half years, after magistrates heard he had been arrested for excess alcohol offences three times since 2005.
Artur Zakowski (35), who is at present homeless having split up with his partner because of his drinking,
admitted driving with almost four times the permitted level of alcohol in his blood, when he appeared at
Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police observed him slowing down as he drove past them in Queens Road
at 11.45pm on June 17 in the Nissan Micra he was provided with to make the deliveries, and then
speeding up.
They stopped him and he was arrested following a positive breath test and gave a subsequent reading of
125 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
Zakowski, who was not represented in court, said he had not drunk on the night he was stopped but
admitted he had been drinking heavily the night before.
He said he had been sleeping in the car since splitting up with his partner but he would now lose the use
of the car as a result of his arrest.
The magistrates heard from the Probation Service that Zakowski’s ‘knowledge of alcohol and driving was
poor’ and he had admitted to them that he had drunk alcohol every day since he was 16.
He was given a community order and ordered to carry out 15 days of rehabilitation and six months of
alcohol treatment.
He was also banned from driving for 30 months and ordered to pay a fine and charges totalling £205.
