Convicted drink-driver caught over limit in Mansfield after altercation with his wife

A convicted drink-driver was caught over the limit in Mansfield after an altercation with his wife, magistrates heard.
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Mansfield Magistrates’ Court was told Graham Worthington was stopped by police on Pleasley Hill, Mansfield, on August 30, at 2.40am, driving his wife’s Honda Civic.

Sanjay Jerath, prosecuting, said a test revealed Worthington had 51 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, when the legal limit is 35mcg.

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He told officers he had been at the pub with his wife, where he drank five or six pints, and left between 1am and 2am.

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Mr Jerath said: “On the way home there was an altercation with his wife and he took the car without thinking straight.”

Worthington, aged 40, admitted drink-driving and driving while disqualified and without insurance.

Lesley Pidcock, mitigating, said Worthington had been told by his ex-partner he was not the ‘real’ father of their son, earlier that day.

She said: “He was devastated.”

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She said the Bolsover Council refuse collector has moved out of the home he shared with his wife in Church Warsop.

Ms Pidcock said: “It was an emotional reaction and he was candid with the police.

The court heard Worthington has six previous convictions for 15 offences, including drink-driving in 2006 and driving while disqualified in 2007.

In 2019, he was jailed for dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen.

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Ms Pidcock said the prison sentence had a ‘large impact’ on him.

Worthington, of Portland Road, Selston, was jailed for 12 weeks, suspended for a year, banned from driving for three years and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £122 surcharge.

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