A driver has been banned from the roads after he was caught taking his car to the supermarket despite being five-times the drink-drive limit.
Raimonds Stekis, 50, was reported to police by a member of the public who saw him exit his vehicle and stagger across the Tesco car park on Wellington Road in Aberdeen.
A sheriff described Stekis’s reading as “extremely high”.
Fiscal depute Lewis Devoy told the court that at around 9.30pm on August 29 this year a member of the public watched as Stekis entered the Tesco car park in his black Vauxhall.
“She observed that the accused was the driver of the vehicle,” he said.
“He appeared to be intoxicated at this time and was staggering as he was walking.
“Police officers were at the locus on a separate matter when their attention was drawn to the accused.
“The officers engaged the accused and noted his speech to be slurred.
“He identified himself as the driver of the vehicle and the officers had cause to administer a roadside breath test.”
When breathalysed Stekis gave a reading of 115 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 22mcg.
Sheriff concerned about ‘extremely high alcohol reading’
Defence agent Nadine Dormer said she anticipated that her client’s high reading would provoke the court to carry out background reports on her client.
Sheriff Andrew Miller told Stekis: “Any crime of this nature is serious but I’m particularly concerned about the extremely high alcohol reading in this case.
“The reading was over five times the limit prescribed by law and because of that, I intend to fix another date for sentence.”
Sheriff Miller deferred sentence on Stekis, of Kirkhill Place, Aberdeen, in order for a criminal justice social work report and a restriction of liberty order assessment to be carried out.
He also placed Stekis on an interim driving ban until his sentencing date.
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