A DRIVER told police he had drunk 12 pints of lager when they stopped him outside the Salvation Army's Citadel in Gillygate, York magistrates heard.
Prosecutor Louise Freeman said Gerald Martin Quigley, 29, had alerted police suspicions by swerving slowly along St Leonard's Place, York, on Saturday.
When they asked him why he was driving so slowly, he replied that he was drunk after drinking 12 pints of lager. A breath test revealed he had 114 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath and that he was three and a quarter times the legal limit.
Quigley, of Lowther Street, York, pleaded guilty to drink-driving. He was banned from driving for 30 months, ordered to do 80 hours' unpaid work for the community and pay £50 costs.
His solicitor, Jane Maloney, said Quigley had been out with a friend.
By the end of the evening, the friend had been in a worse state than he was, so he had decided to move the car a short distance to Lowther Street.
Updated: 09:24 Friday, September 30, 2005
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