A reveller who was thrown out of an Aberdeen nightclub on a rainy night has admitted drink-driving after he “went to his car for a heat” but then moved the vehicle.
Despite living within walking distance away, Kalyan Andru was spotted hopping into his car after he’d been ejected from ATIK on Bridge Place for causing a disturbance.
They saw the 29-year-old get into his silver Honda Jazz at around 2.20am on March 18 this year and called the police after the car was seen moving, Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard.
The cyber security student later claimed he’d just wanted to warm up in the car as he was cold.
Fiscal depute Sean Ambrose said: “Public CCTV officers maintaining surveillance on these individuals who were ejected, one of them being the accused, informed police that they had just seen the accused get into the driver seat of a silver Honda Jazz.
“Tens minutes later officers attended at Bath Street and traced the accused within the vehicle with the engine still running.
“They noted he appeared intoxicated and had just been ejected from the premises.”
Was almost four-times the limit
Andru, a fourth-year university student, admitted driving with 81mcg microgrammes of alcohol per litre of blood, the legal limit being 22.
His defence agent said Michael Burnett said the student lived within walking distance which made it “even more difficult to understand why a car was involved in any circumstances that night”.
He added: “The evening out with friends was cut short, he found himself outside with his friend. It started with it being cold and raining and him putting the heating on in the vehicle.
“CCTV shows that the vehicle did move back a short distance. He has no recollection of that but it just meets the threshold for driving, I would say.”
Banned from road and handed fine
He added that in the view of the overseas student, it wasn’t driving.
“He might benefit from the drink-drive rehabilitation scheme,” the solicitor added.
Sheriff Donald Ferguson handed Andru, of George Street, Aberdeen, a 16-month roads ban and a £520 fine. He can reduce the ban length by 25% if he completed a drink-driver rehabilitation course.
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