An over-the-limit motorist said he had been taking a friend to a vet because of an ill dog when caught.
Craig Wesley Jennett (40), of Old Mill Court in Tandragee, was detected after police were told of a vehicle “swerving all over the road” at Malcolm Road in Lurgan.
This was at around 3pm on February 10 this year.
Craigavon Magistrates’ Court was told police spoke to the defendant at Avenue Road in Lurgan.
He had an alcohol in breath reading of 61mcgs – the legal limit is 35.
A defence lawyer said the defendant had been drinking the previous night and the next day had been asked by a friend to give him a lift to a vet’s because of “quite an ill dog”.
The lawyer said the defendant was embarrassed at being in court.
The defendant was banned from driving for a year and was fined £200.
