A DRINK driver stopped by police said he had made a mistake.

Sergia Bodrug, 44, told officers: “My mistake was driving while I drank beer. It is not a crime.”

District Judge Gwyn Jones, sitting at North East Wales Magistrates’ Court at Mold told him that may have been a misunderstanding of the law of England and Wales.

Bodrug, of Hampden Road in Wrexham, admitted driving with 58 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath compared to the legal limit of 35.

He was banned from driving for 14 months and fined £270 with £85 costs and a £30 surcharge.

Prosecutor James Neary said that the defendant was stopped driving a Toyota in Townhill Lane, Wrexham, at 3.30 a.m. on June 19.

Police said that they stopped him because of a defective light but the defendant denied that was the case.

Emma Simoes, defending, said that her client was a man of good character who had been driving for 25 years “without a blemish”.

Losing his driving licence would cause great difficulties as he worked on an industrial estate quite far from his home.