A DRINK driver told police she “likes a drink when it’s sunny” after being pulled over.
Katherine Fowler was picking her children up from school when she failed a roadside breath test.
The housekeeper, who told police she “only had one”, was arrested and charged with having 55mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in her system. The legal limit is 35mcg.
Fowler, of Nickles Close in Bexhill, appeared at Hastings Magistrates’ Court on July 24 where she was disqualified from driving for 36 months.
She was also ordered to pay a £415 fine, £85 costs and a £41 victim surcharge.
It is the second time that she has been convicted of drink-driving, having committed the same offence in June 2017.
Fowler was one of 83 people arrested as part of Surrey and Sussex Police’s summer crackdown on drink and drug-drivers, which ran from June 24 to July 7 - 29 of these have been convicted in court.
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