Three-year ban for 21-year-old
A man caught almost two and a half times the drink-drive limit has been banned from getting behind the wheel for three years.
21-year-old Ciaran Angus Gell of Campion Crescent admitted the offence when he appeared at Douglas Courthouse before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes.
Prosecution advocate Rachael Braidwood said Gell came to the attention of police when he turned out of a filling station on Peel Road at around 1am on 28 December.
As he headed towards Quarterbridge, officers saw his white Ford Fiesta weaving from side to side and they stopped him on the New Castletown Road.
At police headquarters, the breathalyser machine wasn’t working and so Gell gave a blood sample which read 203 – the legal limit is 80.
Defence advocate Jim Travers said his client had been on a night out with colleagues from Isle of Man Bank and someone who’d offered him a lift home left early.
He then made the decision to drive after being unable to find a taxi.
Gell was fined £1,000, ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs, banned from the roads for three years and ordered to go on a rehabilitation course for drink-drivers.
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