A MOTHER from Selby has been disqualified from driving for three years and fined after her second drink-driving conviction in ten years.

Jane Wynne, 44, was seen by CCTV operators at about 1am on February 20 “walking unsteadily” towards a Citroën Saxo in Micklegate, Selby, before getting into the car and driving away.

Police were alerted and stopped the car in Finkle Street, where they smelled alcohol on Wynne’s breath and carried out a roadside breathalyser test.

The test showed she had 53 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, almost one-and-a-half times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.

Wynne, who lives in the Abbot's Road estate, Selby, pleaded guilty to one charge of drink-driving. She said she had drunk in the afternoon, then eaten and slept, and did not think she was over the limit.

She said: “I went to pick up a friend who was drunk. I did believe I was okay, which is why I co-operated.”

Wynne told the court she would be unable to take her children to activities including football if disqualified, and had already cancelled a holiday, calling the car “a lifeline”.

Magistrate Ruth Stanley told Wynne her punishment was more severe because this was her second drink-driving conviction in ten years.

In addition to the disqualification, Wynne was fined £110, and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £20 and prosecution costs of £85.