A MAN spotted driving around a pub car park was found to be more than three times the drink drive limit, a court heard.

Andrew Allen, of  Station Road in Bangor on Dee, appeared at Wrexham Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

The 59-year-old admitted that on July 30 at the Plas Coch Public House in Wrexham, he drove a VW Polo after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his breath exceeded the prescribed limit.

He was found to have 127 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the limit being 35.

Ceri Nash, prosecuting, said after enjoying an afternoon at the pub, and drinking a "significant amount of alcohol" the defendant was spotted driving around the car park by two members of staff.

They had seen him go outside, get in the vehicle and set off - apparently in search of the car park exit.

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The staff alerted police and went out after him, eventually persuading him to get out of the vehicle.

When officers arrived, he was standing by the pub and came across as "highly intoxicated" with slurred speech and a smell of alcohol.

Emma Simoes, defending, said: "Mr Allen doesn't seek to put forward any excuses for his behaviour.

"He suffers considerable mobility issues and lives on his own.

"He'd struggle to do any unpaid work."

District Judge Gwyn Jones handed the defendant a community order of 16 weeks, to include a 7pm to 6am electronically monitored curfew.

He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £140 surcharge, as well as being banned from driving for 36 months.

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