A serving soldier, temporarily based in Castlemartin, has been banned from driving for 14 months after being arrested in his vehicle over the limit.
Twenty-year-old Rory Stone, of Fairfield, Buxton, appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court, on Tuesday, to plead guilty to a charge of driving a Rover on Commons Road in Pembroke, with 45 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the prescribed limit.
Prosecutor Vaughan Pritchard-Jones told the court that at 5.20 am on July 17, police officers on routine patrol noticed the defendant’s vehicle driving down Pembroke’s Main Street with no lights on.
“Officers followed the car and when they stopped it they noticed a smell of intoxicants,” he explained.
Defence solicitor Mark Layton said that his client had driven to pick some friends up and thought that the alcohol he had consumed had cleared up.
Magistrates disqualified Mr. Stone from driving for 14 months and fined him £280 for the offence.
He was also ordered to pay court costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.