Drink driver breached crown court order just four days before it ran out
A Mansfield drink driver breached a crown court order for wounding someone just four days before it was due to run out, a court has heard.
Police spotted Kevin Nussey getting out of his car outside his home, at 11pm, on December 16, after a member of the public raised concerns about the manner of his driving, said prosecutor Andrew Conboy.
He told officers he only drank one pint some hours before, but a breath test revealed he had 84 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes.
The court heard the offence put him in breach of a 14-month prison sentence foru wounding suspended for two years by Nottingham Crown Court on December 20 2021.
He breached the order, which included a 120-day alcohol abstinence requirement, four days before it was due to run out, said Mr Conboy.
And he was fined £50 for breaching the order in July last year.
Ryan Higginbotham, mitigating, said Nussey, who deserved credit for his guilty plea, denied driving in a poor fashion and claimed he had been followed all the way home.
The inevitable disqualification will have huge impact on his £500-per-week business as a self-employed plasterer and his ability to see his daughter, he said.
A probation officer said he had been “very compliant” on the order.
Nussey, aged 42, of Deakins Court, admitted drink-driving when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Tuesday.
He was banned for 22 months but a rehabilitation course could reduce the disqualification by 25 per cent if completed by April 7 2025.
He was fined £120 with a £48 surcharge and £85 costs.