Banned driver was over drink drive limit
A BANNED motorist who was twice the drink drive limit has been jailed for five months.
Limbi Banda was weaving along Station Road, Swindon, in a Ford Fiesta without the lights on in the early hours of the morning.
When the 24-year-old was arrested he was found to not only be disqualified from driving but also on a suspended sentence for assault.
Lynne Henderson, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the car was spotted in the town centre at about 4.15am on Sunday, April 18.
She said when he was taken to the police station Banda, who was driving the car, was found to be more than twice the drink drive limit.
It was also found that he was on a three year driving ban imposed in October 2008 for his second drink driving offence.
When he was questioned he said he had been in a nightclub where he had three pints of beer before volunteering to drive a car belonging to a woman he met.
Miss Henderson said he had also been put on a three month suspended sentence in February last year after admitting assaulting a man in Southend town centre.